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The ORWIG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,524 17158 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 350 12726 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1174 -4432 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ORWIG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 269 5293 0.002 22
Illinois 199 6120 0.002 16
Ohio 188 6746 0.002 17
California 92 23345 0.000 3
Michigan 77 15309 0.001 8
Top States for ORWIG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 269 5293 0.002 22
Iowa 64 6629 0.002 22
Ohio 188 6746 0.002 17
Illinois 199 6120 0.002 16
Oklahoma 44 8220 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of ORWIG

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

Ethnic distribution of ORWIG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 19 1.25
Mixed Race 9 0.59
White (Caucasian) 1,487 97.57
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of ORWIG in historical publications

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

Similar names to ORWIG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORWIG.

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 ORWIG

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