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The PAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 602 35387 0 2
United States (1880 census) 1,705 3442 0.003 34
Change since 1880 -1103 -31945 +N/A -32
Other Countries
Australia 504 3188 0.003 31
United Kingdom 2,075 2866 0.005 45
Top States for PAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 72 32219 0.000 2
Florida 72 23729 0.000 5
Arizona 61 9606 0.001 12
New York 44 42198 0.000 2
Texas 28 41964 0.000 1
Top States for PAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 61 9606 0.001 12
Oklahoma 18 17569 0.001 5
Washington 28 25633 0.000 5
Florida 72 23729 0.000 5
Virginia 28 20296 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PAIN

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 PAIN 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 PAIN 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 PAIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 382 63.46
Black/African American 90 14.95
White (Hispanic) 90 14.95
Asian/Pacific 22 3.65
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PAIN in historical publications

PAIN. PAINE. See under Paganus.

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 PAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAIN.

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 PAIN

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