Welcome to our name ranking service.  This service searches the U.S. Census name database and provides statistics based on the supplied name.  Enter your name information below and we will tell you the ranking information. 2000 Census data coming soon...

For example if you looked up the surname of Moore you would find:

MOORE     0.312     5.312     9

Frequency:		The surname, MOORE, is possessed by 0.312 percent of our population sample
Cumulative Frequency:		5.312 percent of the sample population is covered by MOORE
Ranking:		In our Search Area sample, MOORE ranks 9th in terms of frequency, and there are 8 names occurring more frequently than MOORE
Combined Ranking:		Both First and Last names must be provided for this ranking to show up.  It's simply an average of the first and last name ranking.  (First name ranking) + (Last name ranking) / 2.

Here are the top 25 rankings for each name category

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division