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The PHILPOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,047 7578 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 557 8853 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3490 +1275 +0.001 +4
Other Countries
Australia 687 2346 0.004 42
United Kingdom 3,952 1578 0.009 86
Top States for PHILPOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 441 6426 0.001 13
Virginia 286 3103 0.004 40
Texas 263 7290 0.001 13
Kentucky 206 2571 0.005 51
Washington 177 4253 0.003 30
Top States for PHILPOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 206 2571 0.005 51
Oklahoma 165 2907 0.005 48
Arkansas 115 3009 0.004 43
Virginia 286 3103 0.004 40
Oregon 121 3690 0.004 35

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

Classification and Origin of PHILPOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 297 7.34
White (Hispanic) 80 1.98
Mixed Race 54 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 49 1.21
Asian/Pacific 16 0.4
White (Caucasian) 3,551 87.74

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

Meaning of PHILPOTT in historical publications

PHILPOTT. PHILPOTTS. See Philiix

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 PHILPOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHILPOTT.

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 PHILPOTT

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