Ingalls DNA Project

How many modern-day Ingalls are there? A quick search of whitepages.com indicates a total of 2,917 Ingalls surnames in America in 2006-- each state is represented with West Virginia having the fewest (3) and California the most (298). A search of Canada indicates 291 Ingalls surnames in all the provinces.

In terms of a Family DNA Genealogy project, the numbers seem perfect. Enough to find a number of matches, but not too many to make the results meaningless.

But ... the marvel of Y-DNA testing allows us to go back many generations ... to the time in the 9th century when Scandinavian pirates were said to have settled in Lincolnshire, England. A sufficient number of samples will map the travels of these early ancestors to their descendants as they spread across the world.

State	No. of Ingalls	State	No. of Ingalls	State	No. of Ingalls
Alabama	32	Kentucky	5	North Dakota	5
Alaska	21	Louisiana	46	Ohio	57
Arizona	46	Maine	129	Oklahoma	18
Arkansas	11	Maryland	23	Oregon	50
California	298	Massachusetts	159	Pennsylvania	50
Colorado	78	Michigan	146	Rhode Island	10
Connecticut	45	Minnesota	88	S. Carolina	18
Delaware	6	Mississippi	8	S. Dakota	57
D.C.	4	Missouri	27	Tennessee	13
Florida	173	Montana	16	Texas	110
Georgia	43	Nebraska	17	Utah	14
Hawaii	12	Nevada	15	Vermont	107
Idaho	32	New Hamp.	94	Virginia	52
Illinois	71	New Jersey	36	Washington	122
Indiana	58	New Mexico	18	W. Virginia	3
Iowa	48	New York	241	Wisconsin	68
Kansas	38	North Carolina	74	Wyoming	5

For distribution of surnames  based on the 1850, 1880, 1920 censuses and the 1990 phone book, see the mapping calculator at U.S. Surname Distribution.

Ingalls distribution by state according to 1850 census

Red = 1 of 100, Blue = 1 of 10,000