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The CARTHENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 181 93841 0 1
United States (1880 census) 2 105825 0 0
Change since 1880 +179 +11984 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CARTHENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 70 9782 0.001 9
New York 26 70532 0.000 1
Washington DC 25 2637 0.004 44
Michigan 17 67052 0.000 2
Maryland 15 35704 0.000 3
Top States for CARTHENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 25 2637 0.004 44
North Carolina 70 9782 0.001 9
Maryland 15 35704 0.000 3
South Carolina 9 29198 0.000 2
Michigan 17 67052 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of CARTHENS

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

Ethnic distribution of CARTHENS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 167 92.27
Mixed Race 6 3.31
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Caucasian) Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of CARTHENS in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARTHENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARTHENS.

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 CARTHENS

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