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The ASTOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 802 28118 0 3
United States (1880 census) 58 45647 0 1
Change since 1880 +744 +17529 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 11 79197 0 1
United Kingdom 118 22237 0 3
Top States for ASTOR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 121 18972 0.000 4
New York 118 15572 0.001 6
Florida 67 23512 0.000 4
New Jersey 64 14759 0.001 8
Massachusetts 37 19142 0.001 6
Top States for ASTOR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 33 13022 0.001 11
New Jersey 64 14759 0.001 8
Maine 9 13243 0.001 7
New York 118 15572 0.001 6
Colorado 26 18949 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of ASTOR

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 ASTOR 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 ASTOR 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 ASTOR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 591 73.69
White (Hispanic) 101 12.59
Native American/Alaskan 77 9.6
Asian/Pacific 14 1.75
Black/African American 10 1.25
Mixed Race 9 1.12

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

Meaning of ASTOR in historical publications

(origin: Local) Oster, a town in North Jutland, 'A??, Greek, a star. Austeuer, German, a dowry, a portion. Ooster, the east part.

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


Similar names to ASTOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASTOR.

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 ASTOR

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