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The SILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,308 9080 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,390 4100 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +1918 -4980 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 45 27812 0 3
United Kingdom 301 12712 0.001 7
Top States for SILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 451 6519 0.001 13
Illinois 226 6084 0.002 18
New York 196 10383 0.001 10
Florida 155 12235 0.001 10
Washington 154 5064 0.003 26
Top States for SILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 76 3754 0.003 34
Kansas 83 4293 0.003 31
South Carolina 118 4355 0.003 29
Washington 154 5064 0.003 26
Delaware 18 7912 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of SILL

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 SILL 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 SILL 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 SILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 77 2.33
Black/African American 62 1.87
Mixed Race 53 1.6
White (Hispanic) 46 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.33
White (Caucasian) 3,059 92.47

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

Meaning of SILL in historical publications

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

Similar names to SILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SILL.

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 SILL

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