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The ATWATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,067 7543 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 1,832 3235 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +2235 -4308 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 2 253556 0 0
United Kingdom 11 30332 0 0
Top States for ATWATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 406 2848 0.005 50
California 315 9016 0.001 9
New York 292 7107 0.002 15
Illinois 254 5494 0.002 20
Georgia 237 3884 0.003 29
Top States for ATWATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 91 2519 0.007 71
North Carolina 406 2848 0.005 50
Connecticut 122 4037 0.004 36
Vermont 19 5011 0.003 31
Georgia 237 3884 0.003 29

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

Classification and Origin of ATWATER

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 ATWATER 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 ATWATER 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 ATWATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 91 2.24
White (Hispanic) 60 1.48
Asian/Pacific 26 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.3
White (Caucasian) 2,492 61.27
Black/African American 1,386 34.08

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

Meaning of ATWATER in historical publications


Local. At (the) water.

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


ATWATER. See Vaters.

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 ATWATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATWATER.

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 ATWATER

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