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The BRITTAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,294 3934 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,546 3742 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +6748 -192 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 804 2019 0.005 49
United Kingdom 3,009 2059 0.007 66
Top States for BRITTAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,178 1028 0.015 146
Texas 1,035 2311 0.005 50
California 623 4676 0.002 18
Florida 354 5667 0.002 22
Washington 323 2294 0.005 55
Top States for BRITTAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,178 1028 0.015 146
Oklahoma 280 1716 0.008 81
Alaska 36 2382 0.006 57
South Carolina 220 2689 0.005 55
Washington 323 2294 0.005 55

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

Classification and Origin of BRITTAIN

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 BRITTAIN 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 BRITTAIN 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 BRITTAIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 356 4.29
Mixed Race 124 1.5
White (Hispanic) 117 1.41
Asian/Pacific 39 0.47
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.46
White (Caucasian) 7,620 91.87

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

Meaning of BRITTAIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BRITTAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRITTAIN.

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 BRITTAIN

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