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The PAPA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,884 5438 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 81 35973 0 2
Change since 1880 +5803 +30535 +N/A +20
Other Countries
Australia 327 4821 0.002 20
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAPA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,104 1550 0.006 58
New Jersey 671 1263 0.008 80
Florida 529 3653 0.003 33
California 521 5129 0.002 15
Pennsylvania 412 3470 0.003 34
Top States for PAPA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 182 742 0.017 174
Connecticut 279 1460 0.008 82
New Jersey 671 1263 0.008 80
Delaware 47 2804 0.006 60
New York 1,104 1550 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of PAPA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PAPA 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.

Ethnic distribution of PAPA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 529 8.99
White (Hispanic) 215 3.65
Mixed Race 76 1.29
Black/African American 39 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.08
White (Caucasian) 5,020 85.32

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

Meaning of PAPA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAPA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAPA.

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 PAPA

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