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The STAPLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,572 2007 0.006 61
United States (1880 census) 5,808 1055 0.012 116
Change since 1880 +10764 -952 -0.006 -55
Other Countries
Australia 958 1723 0.006 59
United Kingdom 3,879 1603 0.008 84
Top States for STAPLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,028 197 0.081 806
Virginia 1,009 900 0.014 143
Texas 912 2582 0.004 44
California 880 3493 0.003 26
Florida 840 2501 0.005 53
Top States for STAPLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,028 197 0.081 806
New Hampshire 234 840 0.019 189
Vermont 112 960 0.018 184
Kentucky 639 943 0.016 158
Virginia 1,009 900 0.014 143

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

Classification and Origin of STAPLES

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 STAPLES 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 STAPLES 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 STAPLES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 310 1.87
Native American/Alaskan 249 1.5
White (Hispanic) 220 1.33
Asian/Pacific 81 0.49
White (Caucasian) 12,182 73.51
Black/African American 3,528 21.29

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

Meaning of STAPLES in historical publications

STAPLES. Said to be derived from Estaples, now Etaples, a small seaport of France about eleven miles from Boulogne.

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 STAPLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STAPLES.

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 STAPLES

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