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The ATLAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,727 15551 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 40 55644 0 1
Change since 1880 +1687 +40093 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 54 24084 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ATLAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 290 6304 0.002 15
California 256 9702 0.001 8
New Jersey 163 5685 0.002 19
Florida 158 10899 0.001 10
Illinois 155 7970 0.001 12
Top States for ATLAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 163 5685 0.002 19
New York 290 6304 0.002 15
Illinois 155 7970 0.001 12
Massachusetts 77 9630 0.001 12
Florida 158 10899 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of ATLAS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ATLAS surname.

Ethnic distribution of ATLAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 288 16.68
White (Hispanic) 56 3.24
Mixed Race 45 2.61
Asian/Pacific 11 0.64
White (Caucasian) 1,327 76.84
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

ATLAS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ATLAS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ATLAS.

Similar names to ATLAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATLAS.

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 ATLAS

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