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The ORME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,414 11876 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 566 8742 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1848 -3134 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 192 7837 0.001 12
United Kingdom 3,242 1930 0.007 71
Top States for ORME by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 315 8693 0.001 9
Utah 221 1428 0.010 99
Florida 142 12901 0.001 9
Kentucky 124 3895 0.003 31
Idaho 119 1550 0.009 92
Top States for ORME by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 221 1428 0.010 99
Idaho 119 1550 0.009 92
Kentucky 124 3895 0.003 31
Alaska 14 7310 0.002 22
Indiana 115 6624 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of ORME

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 ORME 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 ORME 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 ORME in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 99 4.1
White (Hispanic) 63 2.61
Mixed Race 35 1.45
Asian/Pacific 20 0.83
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.5
White (Caucasian) 2,185 90.51

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

Meaning of ORME in historical publications

ORME. A personal name not uncommon in Saxon and Norman times, and doubtless of Scandinavian origin. In the Old Norse, the generic name for serpents is orm. Some early landowners with tJiis designation have imjn-essed it upon the Ormsbys, Ormerod, Ormside, Ormes-Head, Ormsliirk, in England, and upon Ormidale, the Ormistons, and Ormary, in Scotland. Domesday presents us with tenants called Orrae in the counties of York and Lincoln, and in the former shire a personnge so named held immediately from the crown.

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 ORME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORME.

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 ORME

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