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The QUEEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,881 1847 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 3,148 1939 0.006 63
Change since 1880 +14733 +92 +0.001 +3
Other Countries
Australia 33 35382 0 2
United Kingdom 1,502 3751 0.003 33
Top States for QUEEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,391 517 0.030 297
Maryland 1,541 366 0.029 291
Georgia 1,478 771 0.018 181
Ohio 1,399 1009 0.012 123
Florida 946 2316 0.006 59
Top States for QUEEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 842 317 0.047 466
Washington DC 192 309 0.034 336
North Carolina 2,391 517 0.030 297
Maryland 1,541 366 0.029 291
Georgia 1,478 771 0.018 181

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

Classification and Origin of QUEEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the QUEEN 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 QUEEN 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 QUEEN in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for QUEEN.

Meaning of QUEEN in historical publications

MAC QUEEN. A branch of the great clan Macdonald (Lords of the Isles.) This connection was recognised so lately as the year 1778, by Alexander, Lord Macdonald. The tribe or sub-clan were known as the clan Revan. In the early part of the XV. cent., Ehoderic Dliu llevan Mac Sweene, or Mac Queen, quitted the Isles on receiving the lands of Corrybrongh, &c., from which period the family have been annexed to the clan Chattan. B.L.G.

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 QUEEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUEEN.

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 QUEEN

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