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The VICE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,213 6067 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 770 6792 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +4443 +725 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 23 47310 0 1
United Kingdom 165 18447 0 4
Top States for VICE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 705 978 0.016 158
Kentucky 562 1093 0.014 139
Alabama 559 1357 0.013 126
Texas 354 5874 0.002 17
California 289 9556 0.001 9
Top States for VICE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 705 978 0.016 158
Kentucky 562 1093 0.014 139
Alabama 559 1357 0.013 126
Mississippi 220 1890 0.008 77
Nebraska 112 2036 0.007 65

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

Classification and Origin of VICE

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 VICE 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 VICE 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 VICE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 265 5.08
White (Hispanic) 90 1.73
Mixed Race 57 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.5
Asian/Pacific 14 0.27
White (Caucasian) 4,761 91.33

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

Meaning of VICE in historical publications

VICE. Halliwell says-" The buffoon of our early drama." When the " Mysteries" ceased to be played for the amusement of our medieval ancestors, a kind of performances succeeded, which were known as Moralities. In these the dialogue was sustained by allegorical characters, " such as Good Doctrine, Charity, Faith, Prudence, Discretion, Death, and the like, and their discourses were of a serious cast." The foil to all these excellent personages was the Vice or Iniquity, Avho usually personified some evil propensity, and kept up a running fire of wit at the expense of the rest.

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 VICE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as VICE.

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 VICE

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