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The OUTLAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,365 3904 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,482 3876 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +6883 -28 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 18 56405 0 1
United Kingdom 217 15684 0 5
Top States for OUTLAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,310 1042 0.016 163
Florida 611 3838 0.004 38
South Carolina 561 1358 0.014 140
Georgia 557 2093 0.007 68
Texas 502 4795 0.002 24
Top States for OUTLAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,310 1042 0.016 163
Mississippi 416 1198 0.015 146
South Carolina 561 1358 0.014 140
Washington DC 69 1040 0.012 121
Alabama 377 2066 0.008 85

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

Classification and Origin of OUTLAW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 156 1.86
White (Hispanic) 115 1.37
Asian/Pacific 34 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.32
Black/African American 4,444 53.13
White (Caucasian) 3,589 42.9

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

Meaning of OUTLAW in historical publications

OUTLAW. A rebel.

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 OUTLAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OUTLAW.

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 OUTLAW

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