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The ACTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,666 6674 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,179 4748 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +3487 -1926 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 386 4110 0.002 24
United Kingdom 2,374 2551 0.005 52
Top States for ACTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 497 1450 0.008 82
Missouri 352 2008 0.006 63
Alabama 304 2145 0.007 68
Ohio 303 4441 0.003 27
California 293 8761 0.001 9
Top States for ACTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 497 1450 0.008 82
Alabama 304 2145 0.007 68
Missouri 352 2008 0.006 63
Wyoming 26 2356 0.005 53
Montana 41 2959 0.005 45

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ACTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ACTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ACTON in Indiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ACTON by picking someone at random in Indiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ACTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ACTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ACTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ACTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 86 1.84
Black/African American 73 1.56
Asian/Pacific 41 0.88
Mixed Race 39 0.84
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.6
White (Caucasian) 4,399 94.28

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ACTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ACTON in historical publications

(origin: Saxon. Local) The oak-town or oak-hill--the name of a town in Middlesex, England, whence the name is derived.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ACTON. The Gazetteer mentions fifteen parishes or townsliips so called, and there are many other minor localities. The Actons of Acton, in Ontbersley, co. Worcester, are said to haA'e been settled there in Saxon limes. They were certainly there temp. Henry III,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ACTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ACTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ACTON

The following words are slight variants of ACTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.