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The OVERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,256 6026 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,504 3831 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3752 -2195 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 50 25357 0 3
United Kingdom 88 24570 0 2
Top States for OVERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 950 1307 0.012 118
Texas 345 5825 0.002 17
California 305 8820 0.001 9
Indiana 292 2668 0.005 48
Ohio 286 4931 0.003 25
Top States for OVERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 950 1307 0.012 118
Kansas 142 2266 0.005 53
Wyoming 26 2591 0.005 53
Iowa 147 2776 0.005 50
Indiana 292 2668 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of OVERMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 91 1.73
Black/African American 73 1.39
Mixed Race 54 1.03
Asian/Pacific 14 0.27
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.23
White (Caucasian) 5,012 95.36

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

Meaning of OVERMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERMAN.

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 OVERMAN

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