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The PAINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,495 3841 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 7,066 852 0.014 141
Change since 1880 +1429 -2989 -0.011 -109
Other Countries
Australia 1,227 1347 0.008 75
United Kingdom 3,652 1712 0.008 80
Top States for PAINE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,022 3068 0.003 30
Texas 584 3838 0.003 28
Massachusetts 556 1643 0.009 88
Florida 470 4349 0.003 29
New York 401 4834 0.002 21
Top States for PAINE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 380 671 0.030 298
Vermont 71 1564 0.012 117
New Hampshire 140 1425 0.011 113
Rhode Island 92 1775 0.009 88
Massachusetts 556 1643 0.009 88

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

Classification and Origin of PAINE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 287 3.38
White (Hispanic) 178 2.1
Mixed Race 103 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 65 0.77
Asian/Pacific 43 0.51
White (Caucasian) 7,819 92.04

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

Meaning of PAINE in historical publications

Paon, Fr., a peacock. Payne, a pagan, unbaptized; a rustic.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


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 PAINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAINE.

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 PAINE

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