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The SOUTHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,521 11459 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 737 7063 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +1784 -4396 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 43 26561 0 1
Top States for SOUTHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 486 2409 0.006 60
Georgia 303 3165 0.004 37
Texas 197 9450 0.001 9
California 183 14156 0.001 5
Massachusetts 175 5021 0.003 28
Top States for SOUTHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 105 1959 0.008 85
North Carolina 486 2409 0.006 60
Maine 48 3968 0.004 38
Georgia 303 3165 0.004 37
Massachusetts 175 5021 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of SOUTHER

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 SOUTHER 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 SOUTHER 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 SOUTHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 31 1.23
Mixed Race 27 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.48
Black/African American 11 0.44
Asian/Pacific 5 0.2
White (Caucasian) 2,435 96.59

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

Meaning of SOUTHER in historical publications

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

Similar names to SOUTHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOUTHER.

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 SOUTHER

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