The BEATON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,259	7222	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	613	8196	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+3646	+974	+0.001	+4
Other Countries
Australia	1,240	1331	0.008	76
United Kingdom	3,655	1709	0.008	80

Top States for BEATON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	587	1584	0.009	92
Florida	431	4773	0.003	27
California	391	7158	0.001	12
New York	385	5126	0.002	20
Michigan	267	4631	0.003	27
Top States for BEATON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	142	1416	0.011	115
Massachusetts	587	1584	0.009	92
North Dakota	45	2359	0.007	70
Maine	72	2892	0.006	56
Rhode Island	30	5316	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of BEATON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	482	11.32
White (Hispanic)	167	3.92
Mixed Race	63	1.48
Asian/Pacific	12	0.28
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.19
White (Caucasian)	3,527	82.81

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

Similar names to BEATON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEATON.

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.