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The SULLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 401 49249 0 1
United States (1880 census) 54 47155 0 1
Change since 1880 +347 -2094 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 338298 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SULLEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 98 4784 0.002 22
Louisiana 71 6696 0.002 16
Florida 40 36535 0.000 3
Ohio 40 28760 0.000 4
Michigan 32 36088 0.000 3
Top States for SULLEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 98 4784 0.002 22
Louisiana 71 6696 0.002 16
Ohio 40 28760 0.000 4
Michigan 32 36088 0.000 3
Florida 40 36535 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 SULLEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SULLEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SULLEN in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SULLEN by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SULLEN

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

Ethnic distribution of SULLEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 322 80.3
White (Caucasian) 58 14.46
Mixed Race 10 2.49
White (Hispanic) 6 1.5
Asian/Pacific 5 1.25
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of SULLEN in historical publications

SULLEN. From disposition.

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 SULLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SULLEN.

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 SULLEN

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