The ORAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,740	15455	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	426	10949	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1314	-4506	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	358	4426	0.002	22
United Kingdom	3,015	2053	0.007	66

Top States for ORAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	163	15047	0.000	5
New York	142	13351	0.001	7
Florida	135	13100	0.001	8
Michigan	126	9957	0.001	13
Massachusetts	108	7510	0.002	17
Top States for ORAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	101	2841	0.005	45
Idaho	37	5010	0.003	29
New Hampshire	25	6279	0.002	20
Nevada	36	6449	0.002	18
Massachusetts	108	7510	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of ORAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	50	2.87
White (Hispanic)	27	1.55
Mixed Race	17	0.98
Asian/Pacific	10	0.57
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.29
White (Caucasian)	1,631	93.74

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

Similar names to ORAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORAM.

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.