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The SAMPLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,414 2885 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 3,639 1685 0.007 73
Change since 1880 +7775 -1200 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 25 44287 0 2
United Kingdom 685 7018 0.001 15
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.

Classification and Origin of SAMPLE

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 SAMPLE 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 SAMPLE 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 SAMPLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 226 1.98
Mixed Race 188 1.65
Asian/Pacific 51 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.39
White (Caucasian) 8,102 70.98
Black/African American 2,803 24.56

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

Meaning of SAMPLE in historical publications

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

Similar names to SAMPLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAMPLE.

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 SAMPLE

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