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The NEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,647 16138 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 718 7216 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +929 -8922 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 22 47747 0 1
United Kingdom 31 27394 0 1
Top States for NEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 390 3256 0.004 39
New York 197 10371 0.001 10
California 138 18316 0.000 4
Illinois 105 13508 0.001 8
Florida 89 19979 0.001 6
Top States for NEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 390 3256 0.004 39
Kansas 44 7878 0.002 16
Wyoming 7 10553 0.001 14
Idaho 14 13344 0.001 11
New York 197 10371 0.001 10

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NEAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NEAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NEAR in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NEAR by picking someone at random in Michigan than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NEAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NEAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NEAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 34 2.06
White (Hispanic) 30 1.82
Asian/Pacific 21 1.28
Mixed Race 9 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,547 93.93

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NEAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NEAR in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NEAR.

Similar names to NEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NEAR

The following words are slight variants of NEAR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.