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The ARRINGTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,216 1554 0.008 79
United States (1880 census) 2,862 2135 0.006 57
Change since 1880 +18354 +581 +0.002 +22
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31620 0 0
Top States for ARRINGTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,369 524 0.029 294
Virginia 2,213 386 0.031 313
Texas 1,811 1459 0.009 87
Alabama 1,589 482 0.036 357
Georgia 1,568 722 0.019 192
Top States for ARRINGTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,589 482 0.036 357
Mississippi 943 486 0.033 331
Virginia 2,213 386 0.031 313
North Carolina 2,369 524 0.029 294
Washington DC 148 420 0.026 259

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

Classification and Origin of ARRINGTON

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 ARRINGTON 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 ARRINGTON 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 ARRINGTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 426 2.01
White (Hispanic) 272 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 123 0.58
Asian/Pacific 66 0.31
White (Caucasian) 11,334 53.42
Black/African American 8,998 42.41

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

Meaning of ARRINGTON in historical publications

ARRINGTON. A parish in co. Cambridge.

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 ARRINGTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARRINGTON.

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 ARRINGTON

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