The SEMPLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,329	12256	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	700	7351	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+1629	-4905	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	565	2872	0.003	35
United Kingdom	2,642	2343	0.006	58

Top States for SEMPLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	324	5849	0.002	17
Pennsylvania	204	7180	0.002	17
California	181	13317	0.001	5
New Jersey	168	5679	0.002	20
Ohio	152	8502	0.001	13
Top States for SEMPLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	34	4926	0.003	27
Delaware	20	6613	0.003	26
Washington DC	12	4486	0.002	21
New Jersey	168	5679	0.002	20
South Dakota	15	8934	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of SEMPLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SEMPLE 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 SEMPLE 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 SEMPLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	339	14.56
Mixed Race	59	2.53
White (Hispanic)	26	1.12
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.64
Asian/Pacific	7	0.3
White (Caucasian)	1,883	80.85

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

Similar names to SEMPLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SEMPLE.

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.