The PALIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,021	23283	0	4
United States (1880 census)	238	16951	0	5
Change since 1880	+783	-6332	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	159	9349	0.001	10
United Kingdom	1,711	3360	0.004	37

Top States for PALIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	99	16300	0.001	6
Montana	87	1200	0.010	96
Washington	67	10221	0.001	11
California	65	31781	0.000	2
New York	62	27516	0.000	3
Top States for PALIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	87	1200	0.010	96
Vermont	43	2311	0.007	71
Rhode Island	51	2968	0.005	49
Connecticut	47	9346	0.001	14
Oregon	47	8628	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PALIN

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 PALIN 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 PALIN 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 PALIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	827	81
Black/African American	119	11.66
White (Hispanic)	42	4.11
Mixed Race	15	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	12	1.18
Asian/Pacific	6	0.59

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

Similar names to PALIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALIN.

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.