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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

'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.

Meaning of NORTH in historical publications

NORTH. SOUTH. EAST. WEST.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for NORTH

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