The POPE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	61,750	486	0.023	229
United States (1880 census)	15,097	378	0.03	302
Change since 1880	+46653	-108	-0.007	-73
Other Countries
Australia	2,965	521	0.018	181
United Kingdom	12,027	488	0.026	262

Top States for POPE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	5,729	162	0.071	712
Texas	5,192	475	0.025	249
Georgia	4,404	212	0.054	538
Florida	4,133	456	0.026	259
California	3,959	820	0.012	117
Top States for POPE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	5,729	162	0.071	712
Alabama	2,863	231	0.064	644
Georgia	4,404	212	0.054	538
Mississippi	1,462	284	0.051	514
Tennessee	2,472	353	0.043	435

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

Classification and Origin of POPE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	994	1.61
White (Hispanic)	895	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	364	0.59
Asian/Pacific	222	0.36
White (Caucasian)	44,991	72.86
Black/African American	14,277	23.12

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

Similar names to POPE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POPE.

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.