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The PROFFITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,223 3535 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 745 6988 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +8478 +3453 +0.002 +19
Other Countries
Australia 33 35288 0 2
United Kingdom 840 6040 0.002 18
Top States for PROFFITT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,214 765 0.021 213
Virginia 1,134 814 0.016 160
Kentucky 834 754 0.021 206
Ohio 768 1883 0.007 68
Texas 525 4311 0.003 25
Top States for PROFFITT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,214 765 0.021 213
Kentucky 834 754 0.021 206
Virginia 1,134 814 0.016 160
West Virginia 200 1381 0.011 111
Kansas 184 1791 0.007 68

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

Classification and Origin of PROFFITT

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 PROFFITT 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 PROFFITT 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 PROFFITT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 138 1.5
Mixed Race 109 1.18
White (Hispanic) 94 1.02
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.49
Asian/Pacific 26 0.28
White (Caucasian) 8,811 95.53

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

Meaning of PROFFITT in historical publications

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

Similar names to PROFFITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROFFITT.

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 PROFFITT

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