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The CARTHEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 117 133114 0 0
United States (1880 census) 24 69563 0 0
Change since 1880 +93 -63551 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 330 4784 0.002 20
United Kingdom 411 10235 0.001 9
Top States for CARTHEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 33 62087 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 22 57327 0.000 2
Wisconsin 12 55206 0.000 2
Florida 11 117104 0.000 1
New York 11 133997 0.000 1
Top States for CARTHEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 12 55206 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 22 57327 0.000 2
Nevada 2 78562 0.000 1
California 33 62087 0.000 1
Arizona 4 110032 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of CARTHEW

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 CARTHEW 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 CARTHEW 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 CARTHEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 114 97.44
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

Meaning of CARTHEW in historical publications

CARTHEW. " The name is local, compounded of Car-dew, or C:ir-tliew, i.e. Eock Black in this parish." (St. Issey.) Hals, in D. Gilbert's Cornwall, ii 255. ' Caerdhu' would rather signify in Celtic, the black castle or fortification. The family were eminent in Cornwall temp. Edw. II.

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 CARTHEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARTHEW.

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 CARTHEW

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