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The BANTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,873 14574 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 381 11932 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1492 -2642 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 94 15057 0.001 6
United Kingdom 1,044 5081 0.002 23
Top States for BANTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 396 2541 0.006 56
Florida 223 9407 0.001 14
New York 186 11474 0.001 10
California 83 29751 0.000 2
Oregon 78 6179 0.002 23
Top States for BANTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 396 2541 0.006 56
Maine 33 5536 0.003 26
Oregon 78 6179 0.002 23
West Virginia 29 5966 0.002 16
South Dakota 12 11285 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of BANTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 676 36.09
Mixed Race 50 2.67
Asian/Pacific 28 1.49
White (Hispanic) 20 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.43
White (Caucasian) 1,091 58.25

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

Meaning of BANTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to BANTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BANTON.

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 BANTON

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