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The AUSTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 803 28088 0 3
United States (1880 census) 793 6599 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +10 -21489 +N/A -13
Other Countries
Australia 671 2408 0.004 41
United Kingdom 1,863 3145 0.004 41
Top States for AUSTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 97 22297 0.000 3
Ohio 83 14607 0.001 7
New York 67 25566 0.000 4
Florida 58 25786 0.000 4
Oregon 35 11269 0.001 10
Top States for AUSTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oregon 35 11269 0.001 10
Arkansas 21 10138 0.001 8
Ohio 83 14607 0.001 7
Arizona 27 17544 0.001 5
Washington 31 20941 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of AUSTEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 728 90.66
Black/African American 29 3.61
Asian/Pacific 15 1.87
Mixed Race 15 1.87
White (Hispanic) 11 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.62

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

Meaning of AUSTEN in historical publications

AUSTEN. AUSTIN. Augustine, the well-known baptismal name, so abbreviated in 0. B'r. and Eug. The Lond. Direct, presents us with a Mr. Austing.

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 AUSTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AUSTEN.

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 AUSTEN

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