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The CARTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 307 61207 0 1
United States (1880 census) 186 20376 0 4
Change since 1880 +121 -40831 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 3 196409 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CARTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 44 29883 0.000 4
Massachusetts 40 19732 0.001 6
Georgia 28 18534 0.000 3
Illinois 21 60399 0.000 2
Connecticut 19 26330 0.001 6
Top States for CARTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 11 13813 0.001 9
Vermont 5 15452 0.001 8
Massachusetts 40 19732 0.001 6
Connecticut 19 26330 0.001 6
Michigan 44 29883 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of CARTEN

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

Ethnic distribution of CARTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 220 71.66
Black/African American 77 25.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of CARTEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARTEN.

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 CARTEN

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