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The RATCLIFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,237 3207 0.004 38
United States (1880 census) 2,285 2653 0.005 46
Change since 1880 +7952 -554 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 323 4882 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,314 4190 0.003 29
Top States for RATCLIFF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,388 1837 0.007 67
Louisiana 873 781 0.020 195
Mississippi 745 623 0.026 262
Ohio 669 2184 0.006 59
California 552 5393 0.002 16
Top States for RATCLIFF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 745 623 0.026 262
Louisiana 873 781 0.020 195
West Virginia 211 1313 0.012 117
Indiana 471 1709 0.008 77
Virginia 547 1788 0.008 77

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

Classification and Origin of RATCLIFF

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 RATCLIFF 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 RATCLIFF 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 RATCLIFF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 188 1.84
Mixed Race 133 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.46
Asian/Pacific 30 0.29
White (Caucasian) 7,825 76.44
Black/African American 2,014 19.67

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

Meaning of RATCLIFF in historical publications

RATCLIFF. RATCLIFFE. Parishes and )laces in cos. Nottingham, Leicester, and Middlesex.

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 RATCLIFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RATCLIFF.

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 RATCLIFF

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