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The OVERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 827 27439 0 3
United States (1880 census) 122 27592 0 2
Change since 1880 +705 +153 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 49 26018 0 3
United Kingdom 208 16104 0 5
Top States for OVERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 141 4436 0.003 27
Minnesota 130 5839 0.003 26
Utah 106 2816 0.005 47
California 84 27721 0.000 2
Wisconsin 56 16361 0.001 10
Top States for OVERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 106 2816 0.005 47
Alaska 28 3476 0.004 45
Arizona 141 4436 0.003 27
Minnesota 130 5839 0.003 26
North Dakota 16 7588 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of OVERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 755 91.29
White (Hispanic) 45 5.44
Black/African American 10 1.21
Mixed Race 8 0.97
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of OVERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERSON.

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 OVERSON

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