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The REGISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,754 3718 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,278 4431 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +7476 +713 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 6 121307 0 0
United Kingdom 87 24596 0 2
Top States for REGISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 2,364 929 0.015 148
Georgia 1,470 800 0.018 180
North Carolina 1,372 953 0.017 170
Alabama 481 1618 0.011 108
South Carolina 371 1902 0.009 92
Top States for REGISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 1,470 800 0.018 180
North Carolina 1,372 953 0.017 170
Florida 2,364 929 0.015 148
Alabama 481 1618 0.011 108
South Carolina 371 1902 0.009 92

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

Classification and Origin of REGISTER

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 REGISTER 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 REGISTER 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 REGISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 960 10.97
White (Hispanic) 99 1.13
Mixed Race 85 0.97
Asian/Pacific 46 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.48
White (Caucasian) 7,522 85.93

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

Meaning of REGISTER in historical publications

REGISTER. A corruption of Rochester. Per contra, a Sussex peasant calls his baptismal register a rochester.

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 REGISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REGISTER.

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 REGISTER

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