The POWER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,846	2250	0.006	55
United States (1880 census)	4,577	1361	0.009	92
Change since 1880	+10269	-889	-0.003	-37
Other Countries
Australia	5,818	232	0.036	356
United Kingdom	10,712	551	0.023	233

Top States for POWER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,455	2202	0.004	43
Massachusetts	1,214	700	0.019	191
Texas	1,155	2106	0.006	55
Florida	1,045	1987	0.007	65
New York	953	1966	0.005	50
Top States for POWER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,214	700	0.019	191
New Hampshire	151	1323	0.012	122
Maine	124	1877	0.010	97
Vermont	50	2109	0.008	82
North Dakota	52	1985	0.008	81

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

Classification and Origin of POWER

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 POWER 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 POWER 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 POWER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	693	4.67
White (Hispanic)	275	1.85
Mixed Race	203	1.37
Asian/Pacific	114	0.77
Native American/Alaskan	61	0.41
White (Caucasian)	13,499	90.93

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

Similar names to POWER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWER.

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.