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The STRING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 368 52827 0 1
United States (1880 census) 350 12731 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +18 -40096 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for STRING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 106 8776 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 41 31476 0.000 3
New York 26 61784 0.000 1
Florida 25 54194 0.000 2
Ohio 17 57458 0.000 1
Top States for STRING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 106 8776 0.001 13
Delaware 9 14485 0.001 11
Wyoming 4 16096 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 41 31476 0.000 3
Alabama 13 17507 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 STRING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called STRING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called STRING in New Jersey than any other state, but you are more likely to find a STRING by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of STRING

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

Ethnic distribution of STRING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 314 85.33
Black/African American 40 10.87
White (Hispanic) 7 1.9
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of STRING in historical publications

STRING. Perhaps a contraction of Stringer. Mr. Bov■ditch informs us that tivo daughters of Mr. String, of S. Carolina, hitely eloped with one person (1857.) Thus was made good the proverbial remark — '• Tivo Strings to one Beau.''

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 STRING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STRING.

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 STRING

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