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The CATTELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 813 27821 0 3
United States (1880 census) 390 11736 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +423 -16085 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 300 5225 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,595 3564 0.003 35
Top States for CATTELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 113 10055 0.001 10
New Jersey 103 8229 0.001 12
Michigan 80 13510 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 73 16957 0.001 6
California 68 28232 0.000 2
Top States for CATTELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 103 8229 0.001 12
Ohio 113 10055 0.001 10
Michigan 80 13510 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 73 16957 0.001 6
Colorado 23 19021 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of CATTELL

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 CATTELL 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 CATTELL 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 CATTELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 787 96.8
White (Hispanic) 11 1.35
Black/African American 5 0.62
Mixed Race 5 0.62
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 CATTELL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CATTELL in historical publications

CATTELL. The Welsh Annals (Annales Cambriaj, Mon. Hist. Brit.) mention a Catell, king of Powys, in a.d. 808, and other eminent personages of the same Christian name. Cattal is, however, the name of a township in the W. R. of Yorkshire. The forms in the H.R. are De Catallo and C'atel. A French Protestant refugee family of Catel settled in England temp. Elizabeth.

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 CATTELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CATTELL.

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 CATTELL

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