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The OPIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 915 25398 0 3
United States (1880 census) 269 15515 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +646 -9883 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 495 3253 0.003 30
United Kingdom 608 7715 0.001 13
Top States for OPIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 92 22870 0.000 3
Virginia 79 8147 0.001 11
Michigan 66 17508 0.001 7
New York 55 29939 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 46 27904 0.000 4
Top States for OPIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 38 3134 0.004 42
Oregon 45 8848 0.001 13
Virginia 79 8147 0.001 11
Wisconsin 45 18175 0.001 8
Arizona 39 12516 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of OPIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 752 82.19
Black/African American 98 10.71
White (Hispanic) 31 3.39
Mixed Race 23 2.51
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.66
Asian/Pacific 5 0.55

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

Meaning of OPIE in historical publications

OPIE. Seems indigenous to Cornwall. Opye occurs there in the XV. cent, and Oppie at a later date.

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 OPIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OPIE.

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 OPIE

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