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The OLLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 932 25006 0 4
United States (1880 census) 64 43144 0 1
Change since 1880 +868 +18138 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 37471 0 0
Top States for OLLISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 143 12964 0.001 7
Arkansas 104 3561 0.004 39
California 103 25165 0.000 3
North Carolina 89 8309 0.001 11
Missouri 66 11628 0.001 12
Top States for OLLISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 104 3561 0.004 39
Missouri 66 11628 0.001 12
Oregon 38 12574 0.001 11
North Carolina 89 8309 0.001 11
Alabama 42 9078 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of OLLISON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the OLLISON surname.

Ethnic distribution of OLLISON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 756 81.12
White (Caucasian) 131 14.06
Mixed Race 31 3.33
White (Hispanic) 11 1.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

OLLISON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of OLLISON in historical publications

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

Similar names to OLLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLLISON.

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 OLLISON

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