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The FOAT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 329 57849 0 1
United States (1880 census) 52 48439 0 1
Change since 1880 +277 -9410 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 110 13179 0.001 7
United Kingdom 141 20286 0 3
Top States for FOAT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 134 6764 0.002 25
Illinois 43 32666 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 29 48909 0.000 2
California 24 87614 0.000 1
New Jersey 19 54416 0.000 2
Top States for FOAT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 134 6764 0.002 25
Illinois 43 32666 0.000 3
Colorado 13 40263 0.000 3
Oregon 10 38595 0.000 3
Hawaii 3 35516 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 FOAT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOAT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOAT in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOAT by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOAT

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 FOAT 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 FOAT 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 FOAT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 233 70.82
Black/African American 88 26.75
Mixed Race 5 1.52
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FOAT in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOAT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOAT.

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 FOAT

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