The PALMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	150,407	158	0.056	558
United States (1880 census)	41,536	109	0.083	831
Change since 1880	+108871	-49	-0.027	-273
Other Countries
Australia	9,820	118	0.06	601
United Kingdom	47,848	88	0.104	1,042

Top States for PALMER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	11,382	250	0.034	336
Florida	9,881	148	0.062	618
Texas	8,882	262	0.043	426
New York	8,790	128	0.046	463
Ohio	6,747	137	0.059	594
Top States for PALMER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	2,621	59	0.117	1,174
Maine	1,416	110	0.111	1,111
Vermont	644	64	0.106	1,058
Idaho	1,348	73	0.104	1,042
Delaware	812	90	0.104	1,036

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

Classification and Origin of PALMER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	677	0.45
White (Caucasian)	117,122	77.87
Black/African American	26,035	17.31
Mixed Race	2,437	1.62
White (Hispanic)	2,903	1.93
Native American/Alaskan	1,248	0.83

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

Similar names to PALMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALMER.

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.