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The GARNES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,275 12497 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 470 10163 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1805 -2334 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 1 317952 0 0
United Kingdom 51 26057 0 1
Top States for GARNES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 402 5103 0.004 35
West Virginia 264 1449 0.015 146
New York 148 18432 0.001 8
New Jersey 141 10201 0.002 17
North Carolina 141 7249 0.002 18
Top States for GARNES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 264 1449 0.015 146
Ohio 402 5103 0.004 35
Washington DC 14 5786 0.002 24
Maryland 109 7690 0.002 21
Virginia 138 7545 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 GARNES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GARNES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GARNES in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GARNES by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GARNES

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 GARNES 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 GARNES 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 GARNES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 58 2.55
Mixed Race 54 2.37
Asian/Pacific 14 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.26
Black/African American 1,034 45.45
White (Caucasian) 1,109 48.75

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

Meaning of GARNES in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARNES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARNES.

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 GARNES

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