The POTTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	37,687	832	0.014	140
United States (1880 census)	9,446	637	0.019	189
Change since 1880	+28241	-195	-0.005	-49
Other Countries
Australia	2,217	720	0.014	136
United Kingdom	11,949	491	0.026	260

Top States for POTTS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,002	905	0.014	144
Ohio	2,764	453	0.024	243
California	2,364	1458	0.007	70
Pennsylvania	2,158	597	0.018	176
Florida	1,991	1078	0.012	125
Top States for POTTS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,944	455	0.034	342
Oklahoma	1,077	426	0.031	312
Delaware	225	597	0.029	287
Mississippi	786	587	0.028	276
Ohio	2,764	453	0.024	243

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

Classification and Origin of POTTS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	546	1.45
White (Hispanic)	490	1.3
Native American/Alaskan	471	1.25
Asian/Pacific	155	0.41
White (Caucasian)	30,817	81.77
Black/African American	5,205	13.81

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

Similar names to POTTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POTTS.

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.