The POLITE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,511	8624	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,017	5383	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+2494	-3241	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	36804	0	0

Top States for POLITE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	599	1350	0.015	149
Georgia	467	2514	0.006	57
Florida	383	6255	0.002	24
New York	273	8562	0.001	14
Texas	197	10695	0.001	9
Top States for POLITE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	599	1350	0.015	149
Delaware	52	3221	0.007	66
Georgia	467	2514	0.006	57
Washington DC	28	2573	0.005	49
Louisiana	183	3722	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of POLITE

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

Ethnic distribution of POLITE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	401	11.42
Mixed Race	87	2.48
White (Hispanic)	47	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.6
Asian/Pacific	10	0.28
Black/African American	2,945	83.88

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

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

Similar names to POLITE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLITE.

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.