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The STRANGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,582 2282 0.005 54
United States (1880 census) 3,039 2005 0.006 61
Change since 1880 +11543 -277 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 711 2277 0.004 43
United Kingdom 4,214 1496 0.009 92
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.

Classification and Origin of STRANGE

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 STRANGE 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 STRANGE 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 STRANGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 206 1.41
Mixed Race 204 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 79 0.54
Asian/Pacific 47 0.32
White (Caucasian) 12,180 83.53
Black/African American 1,866 12.8

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

Meaning of STRANGE in historical publications

STRANGE. According to some genealogists this family first appear in England at certain jousts of arms, which took place at Peverell's Castle, in the Peak of Derbyshire. There were present on the occasion Owen, Prince of AVales, a Scottish Prince, and two sous of the Duke of Brittany, one of Avhom, from his foreign birth, was called Guido le Strange, and became progenitor of the various baronial liouses of L'Estrange and Stra7ige. " Tliis race of Je Strange contin\ied for many descents in the dignity of lords barons, in Latine records called Exiranei, for that they Avere strangers, brought hither by King Henry the Second,

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 STRANGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STRANGE.

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 STRANGE

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