The PAPPAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,754	1977	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	-1	116273	0	0
Change since 1880	+16755	+114296	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	880	1865	0.005	54
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PAPPAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,608	1055	0.008	85
California	1,584	1921	0.005	47
Florida	1,420	1373	0.009	89
Massachusetts	1,214	658	0.019	191
Illinois	1,210	960	0.010	97
Top States for PAPPAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,214	658	0.019	191
New Hampshire	222	810	0.018	180
Connecticut	450	831	0.013	132
New Jersey	864	947	0.010	103
Illinois	1,210	960	0.010	97

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

Classification and Origin of PAPPAS

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 PAPPAS 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 PAPPAS 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 PAPPAS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	337	2.01
Mixed Race	263	1.57
Asian/Pacific	70	0.42
Black/African American	70	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	60	0.36
White (Caucasian)	15,955	95.23

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

Similar names to PAPPAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAPPAS.

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.