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The CAHOON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,660 6683 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,400 4070 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +3260 -2613 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 57 22829 0 3
United Kingdom 392 10583 0.001 9
Top States for CAHOON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 561 2150 0.007 70
Virginia 414 2314 0.006 58
Massachusetts 385 2432 0.006 61
California 342 8304 0.001 10
Utah 311 1013 0.014 139
Top States for CAHOON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 311 1013 0.014 139
Rhode Island 124 1310 0.012 118
North Dakota 54 1952 0.008 84
North Carolina 561 2150 0.007 70
Idaho 85 2241 0.007 66

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

Classification and Origin of CAHOON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 70 1.5
Mixed Race 63 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.99
White (Hispanic) 40 0.86
Asian/Pacific 17 0.36
White (Caucasian) 4,424 94.94

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

Meaning of CAHOON in historical publications

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

Similar names to CAHOON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAHOON.

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 CAHOON

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