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The PORTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 342 55971 0 1
United States (1880 census) 27 66201 0 1
Change since 1880 +315 +10230 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 8 30996 0 0
Top States for PORTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 46 30442 0.000 4
Florida 39 41418 0.000 2
Wisconsin 36 25425 0.001 7
California 29 75446 0.000 1
New York 25 72265 0.000 1
Top States for PORTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 10 11288 0.002 16
Wisconsin 36 25425 0.001 7
Minnesota 24 32745 0.000 5
Illinois 46 30442 0.000 4
Indiana 22 26564 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PORTEN

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

Ethnic distribution of PORTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 317 92.69
Black/African American 9 2.63
Mixed Race 9 2.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PORTEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PORTEN.

Similar names to PORTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTEN.

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 PORTEN

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