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The INCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 669 32417 0 2
United States (1880 census) 115 28703 0 2
Change since 1880 +554 -3714 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 149 9904 0.001 9
United Kingdom 659 7252 0.001 14
Top States for INCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 183 8051 0.001 15
Michigan 105 11674 0.001 11
California 62 34162 0.000 2
Washington 38 17681 0.001 6
New York 33 51194 0.000 2
Top States for INCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 10 9805 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 183 8051 0.001 15
Michigan 105 11674 0.001 11
Washington 38 17681 0.001 6
Hawaii 6 17716 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of INCH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 649 97.01
White (Hispanic) 10 1.49
Black/African American 5 0.75
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of INCH in historical publications

INCH. Several parishes and places in Scotland. Inch is a topographical expression signifying island. It has been derived from the British ynys, and the Gaelic inis — insula. "The word is said to occur with the same signification in some of the aboriginal languages of North America." Gaz. Scot!. But it sometimes denotes level ground contiguous to a river.

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 INCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INCH.

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 INCH

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