The PILLOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,086	9662	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	663	7675	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+2423	-1987	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	8	100704	0	0
United Kingdom	108	23206	0	2

Top States for PILLOW by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	525	1723	0.009	92
Texas	385	5567	0.002	18
Virginia	322	2908	0.005	45
Arkansas	256	1480	0.010	96
California	161	16040	0.000	5
Top States for PILLOW by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	256	1480	0.010	96
Tennessee	525	1723	0.009	92
Virginia	322	2908	0.005	45
Kentucky	134	3759	0.003	33
Mississippi	58	4945	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of PILLOW

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 PILLOW 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 PILLOW 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 PILLOW in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	653	21.16
Mixed Race	51	1.65
White (Hispanic)	33	1.07
Asian/Pacific	17	0.55
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.45
White (Caucasian)	2,318	75.11

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

Similar names to PILLOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PILLOW.

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.