The PICKENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,597	2133	0.006	58
United States (1880 census)	3,347	1833	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+12250	-300	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	82	16949	0.001	5
United Kingdom	87	24581	0	2

Top States for PICKENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,764	1461	0.008	85
Ohio	1,017	1376	0.009	90
California	903	3471	0.003	27
Illinois	837	1581	0.007	67
Tennessee	820	1123	0.014	144
Top States for PICKENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	677	677	0.024	238
West Virginia	364	792	0.020	201
Alabama	740	1048	0.017	166
Oklahoma	554	874	0.016	161
South Carolina	608	1133	0.015	152

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

Classification and Origin of PICKENS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	257	1.65
White (Hispanic)	197	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	89	0.57
Asian/Pacific	44	0.28
White (Caucasian)	9,145	58.63
Black/African American	5,864	37.6

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

Similar names to PICKENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICKENS.

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.