The SELF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,954	1426	0.009	85
United States (1880 census)	3,524	1734	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+19430	+308	+0.002	+15
Other Countries
Australia	343	4609	0.002	21
United Kingdom	2,274	2650	0.005	50

Top States for SELF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,203	823	0.015	154
Alabama	1,961	358	0.044	441
North Carolina	1,410	868	0.018	175
Tennessee	1,402	649	0.025	246
California	1,383	2364	0.004	41
Top States for SELF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,961	358	0.044	441
Oklahoma	1,154	392	0.033	334
Louisiana	1,188	552	0.027	266
Arkansas	673	527	0.025	252
Tennessee	1,402	649	0.025	246

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

Classification and Origin of SELF

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 SELF 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 SELF 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 SELF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	367	1.6
Mixed Race	326	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	271	1.18
Asian/Pacific	83	0.36
White (Caucasian)	20,723	90.28
Black/African American	1,187	5.17

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

Similar names to SELF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SELF.

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.