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The GRATTAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,016 23350 0 4
United States (1880 census) 306 14047 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +710 -9303 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 149 9888 0.001 9
United Kingdom 668 7167 0.001 15
Top States for GRATTAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 157 10520 0.001 8
California 113 18123 0.000 3
Michigan 103 10529 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 89 14119 0.001 7
Florida 61 22954 0.000 4
Top States for GRATTAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 103 10529 0.001 10
New Hampshire 12 10775 0.001 10
Massachusetts 53 12509 0.001 8
New York 157 10520 0.001 8
Virginia 53 10545 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of GRATTAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 952 93.7
Black/African American 29 2.85
White (Hispanic) 21 2.07
Mixed Race 9 0.89
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 GRATTAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GRATTAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRATTAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRATTAN.

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 GRATTAN

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