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The MASH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,903 7860 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 588 8473 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3315 +613 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 44 28042 0 3
United Kingdom 526 8527 0.001 11
Top States for MASH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 518 6306 0.005 46
North Carolina 402 4984 0.005 50
Pennsylvania 297 11863 0.002 24
Florida 292 14280 0.002 18
Texas 292 13235 0.001 14
Top States for MASH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 402 4984 0.005 50
Tennessee 262 5602 0.005 46
Ohio 518 6306 0.005 46
West Virginia 69 5567 0.004 38
Delaware 25 12485 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of MASH

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 MASH 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 MASH 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 MASH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 715 18.32
White (Hispanic) 62 1.59
Mixed Race 52 1.33
Asian/Pacific 20 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.38
White (Caucasian) 3,039 77.86

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

Meaning of MASH in historical publications

MASH. A provincial pronunciation of Marsh.

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 MASH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MASH.

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 MASH

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