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The OVERCAST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 340 56246 0 1
United States (1880 census) 65 42784 0 1
Change since 1880 +275 -13462 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OVERCAST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 76 6099 0.001 13
Montana 39 2517 0.004 43
Missouri 26 18529 0.000 5
Texas 25 36353 0.000 1
California 20 78331 0.000 1
Top States for OVERCAST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 39 2517 0.004 43
Wyoming 8 7069 0.002 16
Tennessee 76 6099 0.001 13
Alaska 3 29002 0.000 5
Missouri 26 18529 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of OVERCAST

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the OVERCAST surname.

Ethnic distribution of OVERCAST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 318 93.53
Black/African American 6 1.76
Mixed Race 6 1.76
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.47
White (Hispanic) 5 1.47
Asian/Pacific None reported 0

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

OVERCAST is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of OVERCAST in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERCAST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERCAST.

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 OVERCAST

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