The BATES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	93,743	293	0.035	348
United States (1880 census)	26,074	192	0.052	521
Change since 1880	+67669	-101	-0.017	-173
Other Countries
Australia	4,934	287	0.03	302
United Kingdom	26,684	195	0.058	581

Top States for BATES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	7,060	353	0.034	339
California	6,400	495	0.019	189
Ohio	5,052	218	0.044	445
Florida	4,881	371	0.031	305
Michigan	4,505	192	0.045	453
Top States for BATES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	3,973	156	0.089	893
Mississippi	2,075	188	0.073	729
Tennessee	4,114	192	0.072	723
Arkansas	1,903	163	0.071	712
South Carolina	2,327	244	0.058	580

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BATES

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 BATES 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 BATES 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 BATES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	684	0.73
Asian/Pacific	384	0.41
White (Caucasian)	72,266	77.09
Black/African American	17,399	18.56
Mixed Race	1,387	1.48
White (Hispanic)	1,612	1.72

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

Similar names to BATES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BATES.

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.