Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census

NOTE: No specific individual information is given.<br><br>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.<br><br>[ed.note: all links point to the original URL; all files are available in this repository]<br>Name List: Documentation and Methodology [&lt;1.0MB] (nam_meth.txt)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]<br>Filesdist.all.last [&lt;1.0MB]dist.female.first [&lt;1.0MB]dist.male.first [&lt;1.0MB]Each of the three files, (dist.all.last), (dist. male.first), and (dist female.first) contain four items of data. The four items are:A "Name"Frequency in percentCumulative Frequency in percentRankIn the file (dist.all.last) one entry appears as:<br>MOORE 0.312 5.312 9In 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.<br>***<br>Microdata: Yes<br>Level of Analysis: Individuals - Last Name<br>Variables Present: Yes<br>File Layout: .last<br>Codebook: No<br>Methods: Yes<br>Weights (with appropriate documentation): No<br>Publications: No<br>Aggregate Data: No