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The POE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,865 1433 0.008 85
United States (1880 census) 4,263 1452 0.009 85
Change since 1880 +18602 +19 -0.001 0
Other Countries
Australia 9 94484 0 1
United Kingdom 37 26889 0 1
Top States for POE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,857 1392 0.009 89
North Carolina 1,373 906 0.017 171
California 1,359 2430 0.004 40
Ohio 1,275 1093 0.011 112
Alabama 1,246 639 0.028 280
Top States for POE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,246 639 0.028 280
Kentucky 1,063 593 0.026 263
West Virginia 432 673 0.024 239
Arkansas 609 602 0.023 228
Tennessee 1,124 812 0.020 198

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

Classification and Origin of POE

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 POE 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 POE 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 POE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 412 1.8
Mixed Race 375 1.64
Asian/Pacific 268 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 194 0.85
White (Caucasian) 18,781 82.14
Black/African American 2,835 12.4

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

Meaning of POE in historical publications

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

Similar names to POE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POE.

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 POE

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