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The MOULTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,580 2840 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 5,135 1190 0.01 103
Change since 1880 +6445 -1650 -0.006 -60
Other Countries
Australia 480 3331 0.003 29
United Kingdom 2,041 2911 0.004 44
Top States for MOULTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 970 3067 0.003 29
Maine 916 212 0.072 718
Florida 886 2205 0.006 55
Massachusetts 858 997 0.014 135
New York 673 2705 0.004 35
Top States for MOULTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 916 212 0.072 718
Vermont 352 171 0.058 578
New Hampshire 536 268 0.043 434
Utah 401 697 0.018 180
Idaho 178 903 0.014 138

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

Classification and Origin of MOULTON

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 MOULTON 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 MOULTON 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 MOULTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 547 4.72
White (Hispanic) 167 1.44
Mixed Race 155 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 63 0.54
Asian/Pacific 47 0.41
White (Caucasian) 10,601 91.55

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

Meaning of MOULTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to MOULTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOULTON.

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 MOULTON

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