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The ORBISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 210 83301 0 1
United States (1880 census) 85 35057 0 2
Change since 1880 +125 -48244 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 2 235185 0 0
United Kingdom 15 29592 0 0
Top States for ORBISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 63 9259 0.001 8
Texas 45 27371 0.000 2
California 21 89123 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 16 71795 0.000 1
Idaho 8 19659 0.001 6
Top States for ORBISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 7 15570 0.001 11
North Carolina 63 9259 0.001 8
Idaho 8 19659 0.001 6
Texas 45 27371 0.000 2
Wisconsin 8 71212 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of ORBISON

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

Ethnic distribution of ORBISON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 190 90.48
White (Hispanic) 11 5.24
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of ORBISON in historical publications

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

Similar names to ORBISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORBISON.

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 ORBISON

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