The PUTNAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,990	1831	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	6,219	982	0.012	124
Change since 1880	+11771	-849	-0.005	-57
Other Countries
Australia	50	25380	0	3
United Kingdom	505	8789	0.001	11

Top States for PUTNAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,420	2130	0.004	42
North Carolina	1,219	930	0.015	151
New York	1,150	1510	0.006	61
Florida	971	2016	0.006	61
Michigan	910	1120	0.009	92
Top States for PUTNAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	268	271	0.044	440
New Hampshire	424	386	0.034	343
Maine	401	595	0.031	315
South Carolina	628	991	0.016	157
North Carolina	1,219	930	0.015	151

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

Classification and Origin of PUTNAM

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 PUTNAM 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 PUTNAM 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 PUTNAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	266	1.48
White (Hispanic)	219	1.22
Mixed Race	192	1.07
Asian/Pacific	92	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	65	0.36
White (Caucasian)	17,159	95.38

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

Similar names to PUTNAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUTNAM.

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.