The NORTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,238	1623	0.008	75
United States (1880 census)	6,648	911	0.013	133
Change since 1880	+13590	-712	-0.005	-58
Other Countries
Australia	2,308	696	0.014	141
United Kingdom	11,468	524	0.025	250

Top States for NORTH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,606	2021	0.005	47
Florida	1,351	1528	0.008	85
Ohio	1,330	1003	0.012	117
Texas	1,247	1956	0.006	60
Michigan	963	1119	0.010	97
Top States for NORTH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	438	671	0.020	196
Vermont	79	1417	0.013	130
Ohio	1,330	1003	0.012	117
Kentucky	470	1242	0.012	116
Oklahoma	384	1253	0.011	111

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

Classification and Origin of NORTH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	297	1.47
White (Hispanic)	297	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	134	0.66
Asian/Pacific	109	0.54
White (Caucasian)	17,544	86.69
Black/African American	1,856	9.17

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

Similar names to NORTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NORTH.

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.