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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

'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?

Meaning of OTIS in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OTIS

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