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The RINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,092 6191 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 1,413 4037 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +3679 -2154 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 57 22884 0 3
United Kingdom 661 7234 0.001 14
Top States for RINGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 446 6616 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 439 3708 0.004 36
Ohio 373 3993 0.003 33
New York 306 6792 0.002 16
Indiana 301 2741 0.005 50
Top States for RINGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 142 1903 0.008 79
Indiana 301 2741 0.005 50
South Carolina 177 3309 0.004 44
Vermont 26 3997 0.004 43
Montana 35 4263 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of RINGER

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 RINGER 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 RINGER 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 RINGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 477 9.37
White (Hispanic) 65 1.28
Mixed Race 52 1.02
Asian/Pacific 37 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.16
White (Caucasian) 4,453 87.45

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

Meaning of RINGER in historical publications

RINGER. A skilful ringer of church bells would readily acquire this surname. See Bellringcr. The surname Ringebell, or Eingbell, is found in the H.R.

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 RINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RINGER.

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 RINGER

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