The SOUTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,839	3066	0.004	40
United States (1880 census)	2,870	2127	0.006	57
Change since 1880	+7969	-939	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	969	1703	0.006	59
United Kingdom	3,447	1814	0.008	75

Top States for SOUTH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	807	1782	0.007	71
Texas	771	3146	0.004	37
Alabama	704	1114	0.016	158
California	615	4934	0.002	18
Florida	571	3802	0.004	36
Top States for SOUTH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	704	1114	0.016	158
Montana	125	906	0.014	139
Mississippi	352	1287	0.012	124
Tennessee	510	1773	0.009	90
Arkansas	224	1700	0.008	84

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

Classification and Origin of SOUTH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	609	5.62
White (Hispanic)	203	1.87
Mixed Race	143	1.32
Asian/Pacific	86	0.79
Native American/Alaskan	67	0.62
White (Caucasian)	9,731	89.78

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

Similar names to SOUTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOUTH.

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.