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The RYERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,279 12487 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 994 5481 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +1285 -7006 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 14 67419 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RYERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 234 10778 0.001 7
New Jersey 182 5224 0.002 22
New York 182 10302 0.001 10
Florida 172 10444 0.001 11
Illinois 140 9192 0.001 11
Top States for RYERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 58 3333 0.005 45
Iowa 85 5035 0.003 29
Montana 23 6302 0.003 25
New Jersey 182 5224 0.002 22
Wyoming 8 9283 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of RYERSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the RYERSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of RYERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 41 1.8
Mixed Race 26 1.14
Black/African American 14 0.61
Asian/Pacific 13 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.26
White (Caucasian) 2,179 95.61

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

RYERSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of RYERSON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RYERSON.

Similar names to RYERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RYERSON.

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 RYERSON

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