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The PORTIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 792 28375 0 3
United States (1880 census) 76 37684 0 2
Change since 1880 +716 +9309 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 18 56335 0 1
United Kingdom 12 30242 0 0
Top States for PORTIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 400 1464 0.009 90
Texas 63 20716 0.000 3
California 50 39539 0.000 1
Florida 42 33996 0.000 3
Georgia 33 14596 0.000 4
Top States for PORTIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 400 1464 0.009 90
Massachusetts 26 26222 0.000 4
Georgia 33 14596 0.000 4
Wisconsin 21 34519 0.000 4
Oregon 12 30714 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 PORTIER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PORTIER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PORTIER in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PORTIER by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PORTIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PORTIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of PORTIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 619 78.16
Black/African American 97 12.25
Asian/Pacific 23 2.9
Mixed Race 22 2.78
White (Hispanic) 22 2.78
Native American/Alaskan 9 1.14

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

Meaning of PORTIER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PORTIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTIER.

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 PORTIER

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