The OTIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,579	4338	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	3,187	1914	0.006	64
Change since 1880	+4392	-2424	-0.003	-36
Other Countries
Australia	36	33030	0	2
United Kingdom	6	31878	0	0

Top States for OTIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	704	4365	0.002	21
New York	646	3131	0.003	34
Michigan	465	2586	0.005	47
Florida	368	5637	0.002	23
Illinois	320	4261	0.003	26
Top States for OTIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	228	1155	0.018	179
Vermont	85	1354	0.014	140
Montana	85	1417	0.009	94
New Hampshire	76	2563	0.006	61
Oregon	196	2318	0.006	57

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of OTIS

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

Ethnic distribution of OTIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	166	2.19
Mixed Race	127	1.68
Asian/Pacific	44	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	41	0.54
White (Caucasian)	5,847	77.15
Black/African American	1,354	17.87

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

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

Similar names to OTIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OTIS.

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.