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The PAPILLION surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 536 38771 0 2
United States (1880 census) 29 63873 0 1
Change since 1880 +507 +25102 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAPILLION by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 329 1991 0.007 74
Texas 109 15081 0.001 5
California 22 93606 0.000 1
Florida 21 70029 0.000 1
Virginia 6 80490 0.000 1
Top States for PAPILLION by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 329 1991 0.007 74
Texas 109 15081 0.001 5
New Hampshire 4 40251 0.000 3
Nevada 4 67911 0.000 2
Oklahoma 5 44931 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of PAPILLION

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PAPILLION surname.

Ethnic distribution of PAPILLION in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 448 83.58
White (Caucasian) 43 8.02
Mixed Race 16 2.99
White (Hispanic) 14 2.61
Native American/Alaskan 9 1.68
Asian/Pacific 6 1.12

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

PAPILLION is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PAPILLION in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAPILLION

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAPILLION.

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 PAPILLION

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