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The SOUR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 222 79676 0 1
United States (1880 census) 354 12621 0.001 7
Change since 1880 -132 -67055 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 5 155475 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SOUR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 36 24613 0.001 7
Louisiana 29 15009 0.001 6
California 20 111150 0.000 1
New York 20 93583 0.000 1
Massachusetts 17 45778 0.000 3
Top States for SOUR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 12 12075 0.002 16
Wyoming 5 16016 0.001 10
Minnesota 36 24613 0.001 7
Louisiana 29 15009 0.001 6
Massachusetts 17 45778 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of SOUR

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

Ethnic distribution of SOUR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 161 72.52
Asian/Pacific 45 20.27
Mixed Race 13 5.86
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of SOUR in historical publications

SOUR. 1. Ill-tempered. 2. Camden places it among rivers. Le Sour. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SOUR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOUR.

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 SOUR

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