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The CRAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,110 1934 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 3,315 1853 0.007 66
Change since 1880 +13795 -81 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 260 5931 0.002 16
United Kingdom 149 19517 0 3
Top States for CRAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,170 1180 0.010 104
California 1,470 2167 0.004 43
Louisiana 1,263 503 0.028 283
Missouri 898 738 0.016 160
Illinois 848 1506 0.007 68
Top States for CRAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,263 503 0.028 283
Arkansas 591 600 0.022 221
Missouri 898 738 0.016 160
Oklahoma 520 912 0.015 151
Mississippi 391 1135 0.014 137

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

Classification and Origin of CRAIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CRAIN 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 CRAIN 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 CRAIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 299 1.75
Mixed Race 246 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 161 0.94
Asian/Pacific 70 0.41
White (Caucasian) 14,975 87.52
Black/African American 1,360 7.95

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

Meaning of CRAIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CRAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CRAIN.

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 CRAIN

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