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The HOWTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,449 17813 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 237 17004 0 5
Change since 1880 +1212 -809 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 28 40780 0 2
United Kingdom 141 20257 0 3
Top States for HOWTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 305 2336 0.007 69
Texas 222 8851 0.001 11
Kentucky 98 4790 0.002 24
California 95 25943 0.000 3
Florida 95 19250 0.001 6
Top States for HOWTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 305 2336 0.007 69
Arkansas 77 4324 0.003 29
Kentucky 98 4790 0.002 24
Delaware 14 10245 0.002 18
Washington 67 11642 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of HOWTON

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 HOWTON 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 HOWTON 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 HOWTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 43 2.97
Mixed Race 29 2
White (Hispanic) 29 2
Asian/Pacific 11 0.76
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.48
White (Caucasian) 1,330 91.79

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

Meaning of HOWTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOWTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWTON.

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 HOWTON

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