The POSTLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	588	36045	0	2
United States (1880 census)	220	17966	0	4
Change since 1880	+368	-18079	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	195	7740	0.001	12
United Kingdom	499	8868	0.001	11

Top States for POSTLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	116	9727	0.001	10
California	56	33247	0.000	2
Florida	53	25644	0.000	3
New York	48	31673	0.000	3
Texas	23	42006	0.000	1
Top States for POSTLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	15	8714	0.001	14
Ohio	116	9727	0.001	10
West Virginia	18	7047	0.001	10
Delaware	7	16062	0.001	9
Alabama	19	12734	0.000	4

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

Classification and Origin of POSTLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POSTLE 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 POSTLE 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 POSTLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	557	94.73
Black/African American	14	2.38
Mixed Race	11	1.87
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 POSTLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.