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The ORRISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 592 35860 0 2
United States (1880 census) 201 19261 0 4
Change since 1880 +391 -16599 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ORRISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 83 8361 0.001 12
Michigan 67 18813 0.001 7
Illinois 45 28885 0.000 4
Florida 43 35495 0.000 3
Maryland 36 14870 0.001 7
Top States for ORRISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 7 10601 0.001 14
Virginia 83 8361 0.001 12
Kansas 22 13908 0.001 8
Maryland 36 14870 0.001 7
Michigan 67 18813 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of ORRISON

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

Ethnic distribution of ORRISON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 571 96.45
Mixed Race 12 2.03
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of ORRISON in historical publications

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

Similar names to ORRISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORRISON.

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 ORRISON

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