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The NEWSOME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,803 1438 0.008 84
United States (1880 census) 1,011 5404 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +21792 +3966 +0.006 +64
Other Countries
Australia 425 3720 0.003 26
United Kingdom 2,474 2478 0.005 54
Top States for NEWSOME by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 2,217 516 0.027 271
North Carolina 2,154 595 0.027 268
Florida 1,983 1154 0.012 124
Kentucky 1,754 366 0.043 434
Texas 1,464 1839 0.007 70
Top States for NEWSOME by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,754 366 0.043 434
Georgia 2,217 516 0.027 271
Mississippi 765 644 0.027 269
North Carolina 2,154 595 0.027 268
West Virginia 474 646 0.026 262

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

Classification and Origin of NEWSOME

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 NEWSOME 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 NEWSOME 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 NEWSOME in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 410 1.8
White (Hispanic) 278 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 62 0.27
Asian/Pacific 52 0.23
White (Caucasian) 13,410 58.81
Black/African American 8,590 37.67

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

Meaning of NEWSOME in historical publications

NEWSHAM. NEWSAiM. NEWSOME. Newsham ; several townships in cos. Lancaster, York, kc. ; Newsholme ; a township in Y'orkshire. NEWSON. Qu. : Nephew's son. See

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NEWSOME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEWSOME.

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 NEWSOME

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