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The USHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,118 4572 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 1,575 3673 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +5543 -899 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 1,021 1623 0.006 62
United Kingdom 4,476 1402 0.01 97
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 USHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the USHER 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 USHER 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 USHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 173 2.43
White (Hispanic) 155 2.18
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.53
Asian/Pacific 22 0.31
White (Caucasian) 4,935 69.33
Black/African American 1,795 25.22

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

Meaning of USHER in historical publications

An officer of a court who introduces strangers; the under-master of a school.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


USHER. Fr. huissier. An official attendant on great persons, and in dignified courts of law, &c.

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 USHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as USHER.

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 USHER

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