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The GAMES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,755 15360 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 418 11104 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1337 -4256 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 20 52867 0 1
United Kingdom 197 16623 0 4
Top States for GAMES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 199 18570 0.001 6
Indiana 138 8258 0.002 23
Ohio 138 14659 0.001 12
Texas 118 19145 0.001 6
Kentucky 105 5947 0.003 26
Top States for GAMES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 89 3469 0.005 49
Kentucky 105 5947 0.003 26
Indiana 138 8258 0.002 23
Delaware 15 13567 0.002 19
Rhode Island 20 11136 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of GAMES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 987 56.24
White (Hispanic) 494 28.15
Black/African American 220 12.54
Asian/Pacific 26 1.48
Mixed Race 16 0.91
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.68

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

Meaning of GAMES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GAMES.

Similar names to GAMES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAMES.

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 GAMES

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