The history of your name

The PORTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 485 42134 0 2
United States (1880 census) 206 18861 0 4
Change since 1880 +279 -23273 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 5 153914 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PORTS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 89 6901 0.002 17
California 54 41968 0.000 2
Ohio 39 31807 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 31 46189 0.000 3
New York 27 66405 0.000 1
Top States for PORTS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 89 6901 0.002 17
Nevada 16 15327 0.001 8
Vermont 4 23034 0.001 7
New Mexico 9 17797 0.000 5
Kansas 11 24790 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 PORTS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PORTS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PORTS in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PORTS by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PORTS

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

Ethnic distribution of PORTS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 412 84.95
Black/African American 63 12.99
Mixed Race 6 1.24
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PORTS in historical publications

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

Similar names to PORTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTS.

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 PORTS

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