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The ARCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,318 19090 0 5
United States (1880 census) 183 20631 0 4
Change since 1880 +1135 +1541 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 84 16660 0.001 5
United Kingdom 478 9144 0.001 10
Top States for ARCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 163 11177 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 148 10135 0.001 12
California 116 20154 0.000 3
Illinois 96 13736 0.001 8
Ohio 76 16858 0.001 7
Top States for ARCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 12 10456 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 148 10135 0.001 12
Florida 163 11177 0.001 10
Maryland 52 10426 0.001 10
Oregon 28 14704 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ARCH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ARCH 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 ARCH 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 ARCH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 119 9.03
Native American/Alaskan 99 7.51
White (Hispanic) 54 4.1
Mixed Race 26 1.97
Asian/Pacific 5 0.38
White (Caucasian) 1,015 77.01

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

Meaning of ARCH in historical publications

ARCH. From residence near one. A bridge is often provincially called an arch.

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 ARCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARCH.

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 ARCH

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