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The IRONS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,145 4558 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 1,892 3133 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +5253 -1425 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 454 3513 0.003 28
United Kingdom 2,107 2830 0.005 46
Top States for IRONS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 459 6318 0.001 14
Florida 402 5147 0.003 25
Pennsylvania 397 3977 0.003 32
Texas 354 5850 0.002 17
Illinois 340 3971 0.003 27
Top States for IRONS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 95 1767 0.009 91
Idaho 90 2107 0.007 70
Delaware 54 2671 0.007 69
Arkansas 182 2037 0.007 68
Alabama 276 2452 0.006 62

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

Classification and Origin of IRONS

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 IRONS 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 IRONS 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 IRONS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 140 1.96
White (Hispanic) 119 1.67
Native American/Alaskan 65 0.91
Asian/Pacific 48 0.67
White (Caucasian) 5,186 72.58
Black/African American 1,587 22.21

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

Meaning of IRONS in historical publications

IRON. IRONS. Possibly from Airan, a village near Caen in Normandy,

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 IRONS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IRONS.

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 IRONS

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