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The CARLTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,727 1587 0.008 77
United States (1880 census) 5,371 1131 0.011 107
Change since 1880 +15356 -456 -0.003 -30
Other Countries
Australia 633 2550 0.004 39
United Kingdom 2,389 2542 0.005 52
Top States for CARLTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 1,932 1067 0.012 121
Texas 1,594 1563 0.008 76
North Carolina 1,559 754 0.019 194
California 1,531 2093 0.005 45
Tennessee 947 933 0.017 166
Top States for CARLTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 689 498 0.026 258
North Carolina 1,559 754 0.019 194
Tennessee 947 933 0.017 166
Oklahoma 507 938 0.015 147
Alabama 632 1173 0.014 142

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

Classification and Origin of CARLTON

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 CARLTON 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 CARLTON 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 CARLTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 342 1.65
Mixed Race 292 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 118 0.57
Asian/Pacific 83 0.4
White (Caucasian) 16,948 81.77
Black/African American 2,943 14.2

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

Meaning of CARLTON in historical publications

CARLTON. CARLETON. The English gazetteer shows twenty-two parishes, townships, &c. so called, and there are many others. Lord Dorchester's family deduce from Carleton, co. Cumberland.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CARLTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLTON.

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 CARLTON

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