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The NEGUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 891 25908 0 3
United States (1880 census) 495 9758 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +396 -16150 +N/A -7
Other Countries
Australia 284 5459 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,023 5181 0.002 22
Top States for NEGUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 125 19090 0.000 4
New York 90 20709 0.000 5
Iowa 75 6077 0.003 26
Michigan 63 20143 0.001 6
Wisconsin 48 18572 0.001 9
Top States for NEGUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 18 5619 0.003 29
Iowa 75 6077 0.003 26
Idaho 18 10081 0.001 14
Nebraska 23 11653 0.001 13
Oregon 41 10555 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of NEGUS

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 NEGUS 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 NEGUS 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 NEGUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 826 92.7
Black/African American 23 2.58
Mixed Race 17 1.91
White (Hispanic) 12 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.79
Asian/Pacific 6 0.67

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

Meaning of NEGUS in historical publications

NEGUS. A probable corruption of some local name ending- in Imise. According to Malone, the mixture bearing this name was invented in the reign of Queen Anne, by Colonel Negus. Richardson.

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 NEGUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEGUS.

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 NEGUS

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