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The CARAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,268 5137 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,221 4611 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +5047 -526 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 35760 0 0
Top States for CARAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,533 1687 0.007 74
Florida 484 4443 0.003 30
Louisiana 322 2020 0.007 72
California 321 8768 0.001 9
Alabama 294 2349 0.007 66
Top States for CARAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 228 1843 0.008 80
Texas 1,533 1687 0.007 74
Louisiana 322 2020 0.007 72
Alabama 294 2349 0.007 66
Tennessee 290 2886 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of CARAWAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CARAWAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of CARAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 117 1.87
Mixed Race 98 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.78
Asian/Pacific 33 0.53
White (Caucasian) 4,949 78.96
Black/African American 1,022 16.31

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

CARAWAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CARAWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARAWAY.

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 CARAWAY

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