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The PLUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,724 10751 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 993 5486 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +1731 -5265 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 109 13287 0.001 7
United Kingdom 167 18271 0 4
Top States for PLUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 237 1165 0.013 131
California 218 11928 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 214 7222 0.002 17
Ohio 168 8159 0.001 15
Florida 139 13104 0.001 9
Top States for PLUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 237 1165 0.013 131
Montana 37 3775 0.004 41
Wyoming 20 3485 0.004 41
North Dakota 24 5051 0.004 37
Iowa 109 3999 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of PLUM

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 PLUM 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 PLUM 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 PLUM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 63 2.31
White (Hispanic) 47 1.73
Mixed Race 25 0.92
Asian/Pacific 22 0.81
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.48
White (Caucasian) 2,554 93.76

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

Meaning of PLUM in historical publications

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Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PLUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLUM.

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 PLUM

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