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The MACHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,984 13957 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 69 40401 0 1
Change since 1880 +1915 +26444 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 127 11539 0.001 8
United Kingdom 444 9656 0.001 10
Top States for MACHEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 341 2094 0.008 77
Texas 279 7126 0.001 13
Louisiana 142 4077 0.003 32
California 130 19070 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 90 16824 0.001 7
Top States for MACHEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 341 2094 0.008 77
Louisiana 142 4077 0.003 32
Arkansas 83 3988 0.003 31
Idaho 29 6586 0.002 22
South Carolina 66 6436 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of MACHEN

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 MACHEN 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 MACHEN 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 MACHEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 147 7.41
White (Hispanic) 51 2.57
Mixed Race 34 1.71
Asian/Pacific 21 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,723 86.84

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

Meaning of MACHEN in historical publications

MACHEN. A parish in \Ioinnouthsliire. Perhaps the same as ilachin.

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 MACHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACHEN.

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 MACHEN

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