The NOBLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	40,217	784	0.015	149
United States (1880 census)	11,647	508	0.023	233
Change since 1880	+28570	-276	-0.008	-84
Other Countries
Australia	4,092	362	0.025	250
United Kingdom	16,879	332	0.037	368

Top States for NOBLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,709	856	0.011	110
Ohio	2,697	439	0.024	238
Florida	2,491	796	0.016	156
Texas	2,427	1062	0.012	116
New York	1,794	995	0.009	95
Top States for NOBLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,546	373	0.038	383
Vermont	207	434	0.034	340
Maine	367	695	0.029	288
Idaho	322	493	0.025	249
Ohio	2,697	439	0.024	238

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of NOBLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOBLE 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 NOBLE 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 NOBLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	873	2.17
Mixed Race	724	1.8
Asian/Pacific	430	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	265	0.66
White (Caucasian)	32,507	80.83
Black/African American	5,413	13.46

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

Similar names to NOBLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOBLE.

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.