The RANGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,323	12277	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	505	9602	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1818	-2675	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	366	4330	0.002	22
United Kingdom	1,102	4852	0.002	24

Top States for RANGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	374	3321	0.004	38
New York	227	8837	0.001	12
Florida	209	9336	0.001	13
California	195	13311	0.001	6
Maine	97	2370	0.008	76
Top States for RANGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	97	2370	0.008	76
Delaware	41	3518	0.005	52
Michigan	374	3321	0.004	38
Alaska	22	4550	0.004	35
Wyoming	12	6372	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of RANGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	278	11.97
White (Hispanic)	107	4.61
Native American/Alaskan	75	3.23
Mixed Race	45	1.94
Asian/Pacific	14	0.6
White (Caucasian)	1,804	77.66

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

Similar names to RANGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RANGER.

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.