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The ORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,783 15177 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 379 11970 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1404 -3207 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 7 114461 0 0
United Kingdom 127 21445 0 3
Top States for ORE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 263 4098 0.003 33
Florida 189 11094 0.001 12
California 167 16556 0.000 5
Virginia 136 6339 0.002 19
New Jersey 110 10244 0.001 13
Top States for ORE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 263 4098 0.003 33
West Virginia 41 4797 0.002 23
Montana 19 9112 0.002 21
Virginia 136 6339 0.002 19
Utah 37 6914 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of ORE

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 ORE 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 ORE 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 ORE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 322 18.06
Black/African American 296 16.6
Asian/Pacific 22 1.23
Mixed Race 22 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.28
White (Caucasian) 1,116 62.59

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

Meaning of ORE in historical publications

ORE. A parish near Hastings, co. Sussex, which had owners of the same name in the XIV. century, if not earlier.

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 ORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORE.

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 ORE

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