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The ORRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,878 14550 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 400 11490 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1478 -3060 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 103 23669 0 2
Top States for ORRIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 580 2762 0.005 47
Illinois 129 10791 0.001 10
Michigan 108 12221 0.001 11
Iowa 107 4201 0.004 37
Florida 105 16997 0.001 7
Top States for ORRIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 580 2762 0.005 47
South Dakota 33 4214 0.004 44
Iowa 107 4201 0.004 37
Nevada 32 7681 0.002 16
Alaska 10 11479 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of ORRIS

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 ORRIS 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 ORRIS 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 ORRIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 43 2.29
Black/African American 38 2.02
Mixed Race 19 1.01
Asian/Pacific 11 0.59
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.37
White (Caucasian) 1,760 93.72

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

Meaning of ORRIS in historical publications

ORRIS. A known corruption of Horace.

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 ORRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORRIS.

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 ORRIS

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