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The POSTAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 438 45909 0 2
United States (1880 census) 104 30605 0 2
Change since 1880 +334 -15304 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 332105 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POSTAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 54 28451 0.000 3
California 51 41104 0.000 2
New York 48 36588 0.000 3
Minnesota 43 17806 0.001 9
Michigan 41 29552 0.000 4
Top States for POSTAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 43 17806 0.001 9
Missouri 27 21701 0.000 5
Idaho 6 26276 0.000 5
Michigan 41 29552 0.000 4
Maryland 20 23990 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 POSTAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called POSTAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called POSTAL in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a POSTAL by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of POSTAL

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

Ethnic distribution of POSTAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 415 94.75
White (Hispanic) 9 2.05
Black/African American 8 1.83
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POSTAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to POSTAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POSTAL.

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 POSTAL

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