Last Name JAMES

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Meaning The son of James. The purely English Jamison and its variants are almost entirely confined to North England, and indeed the great majority are of Lowland Scottish descent. On the other hand, James as a surname is as often South English as North, which accounts for the multitude of its modern representatives.
The same as Jacob, he that supplants.
Origin English, Hebrew, Jewish, Native American, Irish, Falkland, Creole, Belgian, South african, Hungarian, Tanzanian, Guam

Rank 80 (2000 US census) 71 (1990 US census)
Count 233,224 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 54.45%, or 126990 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 38.09%, or 88835 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.81%, or 1889 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 2.51%, or 5854 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.1%, or 4898 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.04%, or 4758 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

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