The REAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,654	5631	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	683	7511	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+4971	+1880	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	83	16803	0.001	5
United Kingdom	237	14839	0.001	5

Top States for REAL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,910	2196	0.006	56
Texas	515	5285	0.002	25
Florida	466	5659	0.003	29
Illinois	283	6124	0.002	23
Arizona	209	3804	0.004	41
Top States for REAL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	109	2872	0.006	64
California	1,910	2196	0.006	56
Oklahoma	172	3539	0.005	50
Maine	61	3961	0.005	48
Vermont	26	4734	0.004	43

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

Classification and Origin of REAL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	251	4.44
Black/African American	218	3.86
Mixed Race	75	1.33
Native American/Alaskan	25	0.44
White (Hispanic)	3,012	53.27
White (Caucasian)	2,073	36.66

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

Similar names to REAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REAL.

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.