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The OS BORNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 65,802 457 0.024 244
United States (1880 census) 6,857 882 0.014 137
Change since 1880 +58945 +425 +0.01 +107
Other Countries
Australia 5,462 256 0.033 334
United Kingdom 23,295 229 0.051 507
Top States for OS BORNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 4,742 235 0.042 418
California 4,227 772 0.012 125
Kentucky 3,977 107 0.098 984
Florida 3,768 515 0.024 236
North Carolina 3,674 298 0.046 456
Top States for OS BORNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 3,977 107 0.098 984
West Virginia 1,374 157 0.076 760
Tennessee 3,297 241 0.058 580
Virginia 3,496 228 0.049 494
North Carolina 3,674 298 0.046 456

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

Classification and Origin of OS BORNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OS BORNE 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 OS BORNE 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 OS BORNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 948 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 415 0.63
Asian/Pacific 250 0.38
White (Caucasian) 55,261 83.98
Black/African American 7,883 11.98
Mixed Race 1,046 1.59

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

Meaning of OS BORNE in historical publications

OSBORN. OSBORNE. For a legend of the origin of this name, see Eng. Surn. ii. 3, 4. Osbernus, Osbern, Osborn, &c., are, however, variations of a very common baptismal name. Several persons bearing it occur in Domesday, as tenants in chief in different counties. Ferguson derives it from the Norse, and interprets it "the divine bear !"

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 OS BORNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OS BORNE.

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 OS BORNE

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