The PORT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,797	10524	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	693	7419	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2104	-3105	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	226	6742	0.001	14
United Kingdom	1,028	5157	0.002	22

Top States for PORT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	318	8423	0.001	9
Pennsylvania	294	5169	0.002	24
New York	278	6977	0.001	15
Florida	188	9835	0.001	12
South Carolina	131	3841	0.003	33
Top States for PORT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	35	2531	0.006	56
South Carolina	131	3841	0.003	33
Iowa	78	5668	0.003	27
Pennsylvania	294	5169	0.002	24
North Dakota	14	8129	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of PORT

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 PORT 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 PORT 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 PORT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	86	3.07
White (Hispanic)	45	1.61
Mixed Race	43	1.54
Asian/Pacific	36	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.29
White (Caucasian)	2,579	92.21

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

Similar names to PORT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORT.

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.