The RANSOM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,754	2113	0.006	58
United States (1880 census)	4,904	1264	0.01	98
Change since 1880	+10850	-849	-0.004	-40
Other Countries
Australia	450	3536	0.003	28
United Kingdom	1,755	3277	0.004	38

Top States for RANSOM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,259	2640	0.004	37
Texas	1,146	2205	0.005	55
Georgia	893	1255	0.011	109
Ohio	798	1810	0.007	70
Florida	736	2943	0.005	46
Top States for RANSOM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	109	1035	0.018	179
Idaho	187	954	0.014	145
Georgia	893	1255	0.011	109
Alabama	452	1651	0.010	102
Mississippi	289	1515	0.010	102

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

Classification and Origin of RANSOM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	369	2.34
Mixed Race	323	2.05
White (Hispanic)	263	1.67
Asian/Pacific	69	0.44
White (Caucasian)	8,936	56.72
Black/African American	5,793	36.77

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

Similar names to RANSOM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RANSOM.

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.