Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
dist.all.last text/plain 3 MB 05/29/2017 06:37:AM
dist.female.first text/plain 146.1 KB 05/29/2017 06:32:AM
dist.male.first text/plain 41.7 KB 05/29/2017 06:32:AM
nam_meth.txt text/plain 10.1 KB 05/29/2017 06:32:AM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100669V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census
Summary:  View help for Summary NOTE: No specific individual information is given.

The Census Bureau receives numerous requests to supply information on name frequency. In an effort to comply with those requests, the Census Bureau has embarked on a names list project involving a tabulation of names from the 1990 Census. These files contain only the frequency of a given name, no specific individual information.

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Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 1990 – Names Files

[ed. note: this content was originally on a separate webpage, at https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/1990_census/1990_census_namefiles.html]

Files

Each of the three files, (dist.all.last), (dist. male.first), and (dist female.first) contain four items of data. The four items are:
  1. A "Name"
  2. Frequency in percent
  3. Cumulative Frequency in percent
  4. Rank
In the file (dist.all.last) one entry appears as:
MOORE 0.312 5.312 9
In our search area sample, MOORE ranks 9th in terms of frequency. 5.312 percent of the sample population is covered by MOORE and the 8 names occurring more frequently than MOORE. The surname, MOORE, is possessed by 0.312 percent of our population sample.

Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Cornell University (Labor Dynamics Institute)
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/1990_census.html



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