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The CAST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,274 19587 0 5
United States (1880 census) 287 14768 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +987 -4819 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 18 57074 0 1
United Kingdom 272 13552 0.001 6
Top States for CAST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 179 10588 0.001 9
California 151 17335 0.000 4
Illinois 108 13429 0.001 9
Florida 81 22003 0.001 5
Indiana 81 9596 0.001 13
Top States for CAST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 44 6627 0.003 26
Oklahoma 79 5792 0.002 23
Indiana 81 9596 0.001 13
Kansas 24 13578 0.001 9
Colorado 38 14839 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of CAST

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 CAST 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 CAST 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 CAST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 95 7.46
Black/African American 66 5.18
Mixed Race 17 1.33
White (Caucasian) 1,079 84.69
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CAST in historical publications

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

Similar names to CAST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAST.

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 CAST

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