The PAPAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,196	20589	0	4
United States (1880 census)	11	86641	0	0
Change since 1880	+1185	+66052	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	724	2232	0.004	44
United Kingdom	41	26703	0	1

Top States for PAPAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	165	10876	0.001	9
California	126	17807	0.000	4
Florida	110	14914	0.001	7
Illinois	93	13513	0.001	7
Ohio	83	14730	0.001	7
Top States for PAPAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	74	9979	0.001	12
Delaware	8	15997	0.001	10
Connecticut	33	13434	0.001	10
New Jersey	79	11611	0.001	9
New Hampshire	11	13202	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of PAPAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Greece

Language of origin: Greek

Ethnic origin: Hellenic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	40	3.34
White (Hispanic)	37	3.09
Mixed Race	25	2.09
Black/African American	7	0.59
White (Caucasian)	1,087	90.89
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to PAPAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAPAS.

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.