The POOLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	54,706	549	0.02	203
United States (1880 census)	5,365	1132	0.011	107
Change since 1880	+49341	+583	+0.009	+96
Other Countries
Australia	3,266	470	0.02	200
United Kingdom	19,767	282	0.043	430

Top States for POOLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	4,692	216	0.058	583
Georgia	4,133	236	0.050	505
Florida	3,815	511	0.024	239
Texas	3,194	835	0.015	153
California	2,595	1317	0.008	77
Top States for POOLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	2,595	221	0.065	647
North Carolina	4,692	216	0.058	583
Georgia	4,133	236	0.050	505
Mississippi	1,400	307	0.049	492
Alabama	2,165	325	0.049	487

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

Classification and Origin of POOLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	793	1.45
White (Hispanic)	591	1.08
Asian/Pacific	202	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	197	0.36
White (Caucasian)	40,986	74.92
Black/African American	11,937	21.82

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

Similar names to POOLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POOLE.

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.