The PHINNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,420	8822	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,451	3946	0.003	29
Change since 1880	+1969	-4876	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	35810	0	0

Top States for PHINNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	396	2145	0.006	62
California	268	9344	0.001	8
New York	265	6976	0.001	14
Maine	250	969	0.020	196
Florida	238	7705	0.001	15
Top States for PHINNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	250	969	0.020	196
New Hampshire	99	1899	0.008	80
Massachusetts	396	2145	0.006	62
South Dakota	35	3449	0.005	46
Vermont	20	4518	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of PHINNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of PHINNEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	59	1.73
Black/African American	44	1.29
Mixed Race	40	1.17
Asian/Pacific	27	0.79
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.18
White (Caucasian)	3,244	94.85

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

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

Similar names to PHINNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHINNEY.

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.