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The PORCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,796 10527 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 815 6455 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +1981 -4072 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 119 12242 0.001 7
United Kingdom 396 10518 0.001 9
Top States for PORCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 231 4572 0.003 27
Alabama 211 3133 0.005 47
Texas 196 9844 0.001 9
Illinois 184 7792 0.001 15
Tennessee 173 4355 0.003 30
Top States for PORCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 47 2898 0.006 62
Alabama 211 3133 0.005 47
Montana 34 4445 0.004 38
Delaware 24 6260 0.003 31
Tennessee 173 4355 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of PORCH

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 PORCH 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 PORCH 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 PORCH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 815 29.15
Mixed Race 44 1.57
White (Hispanic) 34 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.72
Asian/Pacific 7 0.25
White (Caucasian) 1,876 67.1

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

Meaning of PORCH in historical publications

PORCH. From residence in or near the entrance of some great building. At-Porch might become Porch er in some instances. One form in H.R. is Ad Portani Ecclesias, " at the church -porch."

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 PORCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORCH.

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 PORCH

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