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

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 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.

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.