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The PRESSMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,564 16802 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 23 70404 0 0
Change since 1880 +1541 +53602 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 12 76544 0 1
United Kingdom 103 23692 0 2
Top States for PRESSMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 220 9243 0.001 12
California 214 12495 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 159 10026 0.001 13
Florida 153 12469 0.001 10
New Jersey 130 8016 0.002 15
Top States for PRESSMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 121 5175 0.002 23
Connecticut 65 7529 0.002 19
Washington DC 10 6054 0.002 17
New Jersey 130 8016 0.002 15
Massachusetts 96 8807 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of PRESSMAN

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PRESSMAN 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.

Ethnic distribution of PRESSMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 22 1.41
Mixed Race 18 1.15
Black/African American 9 0.58
White (Caucasian) 1,512 96.68
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PRESSMAN in historical publications

PRESSMAN. Probably ' Priest-man,' an attendant upon a priest.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PRESSMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRESSMAN.

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 PRESSMAN

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