The PAYNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	138,028	183	0.051	512
United States (1880 census)	28,476	177	0.057	570
Change since 1880	+109552	-6	-0.006	-58
Other Countries
Australia	8,513	135	0.052	521
United Kingdom	37,331	120	0.081	813

Top States for PAYNE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	11,341	204	0.054	544
California	8,872	358	0.026	262
Virginia	7,529	66	0.106	1,064
Georgia	7,128	117	0.087	871
Florida	7,090	245	0.044	444
Top States for PAYNE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	6,876	89	0.121	1,209
Alabama	5,150	101	0.116	1,158
Kentucky	4,409	87	0.109	1,091
Virginia	7,529	66	0.106	1,064
West Virginia	1,807	100	0.100	999

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

Classification and Origin of PAYNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	745	0.54
Asian/Pacific	483	0.35
White (Caucasian)	101,713	73.69
Black/African American	30,408	22.03
Mixed Race	2,415	1.75
White (Hispanic)	2,264	1.64

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

Similar names to PAYNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYNE.

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.