The POSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,292	3193	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	1,557	3718	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+8735	+525	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	15	64674	0	1
United Kingdom	351	11456	0.001	8

Top States for POSTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,996	290	0.050	498
North Carolina	859	1458	0.011	107
Texas	858	2716	0.004	41
Tennessee	774	1169	0.014	136
Florida	562	3737	0.004	35
Top States for POSTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,996	290	0.050	498
Tennessee	774	1169	0.014	136
North Carolina	859	1458	0.011	107
Virginia	466	2023	0.007	66
Kentucky	244	2285	0.006	60

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of POSTON

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 POSTON 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 POSTON 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 POSTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	127	1.23
White (Hispanic)	107	1.04
Native American/Alaskan	55	0.53
Asian/Pacific	37	0.36
White (Caucasian)	8,872	86.2
Black/African American	1,094	10.63

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