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The PHALEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,702 15745 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 769 6804 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +933 -8941 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 2 230106 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PHALEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 197 9584 0.001 10
Illinois 168 7741 0.001 14
California 136 17400 0.000 4
Ohio 123 10530 0.001 11
Wisconsin 81 10676 0.002 15
Top States for PHALEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 27 5115 0.003 30
West Virginia 48 3873 0.003 27
Vermont 16 5527 0.003 26
Nebraska 26 10266 0.002 15
Wisconsin 81 10676 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of PHALEN

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

Ethnic distribution of PHALEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 43 2.53
Mixed Race 15 0.88
Asian/Pacific 10 0.59
White (Caucasian) 1,627 95.59
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PHALEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to PHALEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHALEN.

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 PHALEN

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