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The RENTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 745 29784 0 3
United States (1880 census) 207 18857 0 4
Change since 1880 +538 -10927 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 588 2761 0.004 36
United Kingdom 2,090 2842 0.005 46
Top States for RENTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 88 11721 0.001 9
California 68 27036 0.000 2
Florida 58 23071 0.000 4
Washington 50 11707 0.001 8
New York 35 41239 0.000 2
Top States for RENTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 10 8151 0.002 16
Michigan 88 11721 0.001 9
Washington 50 11707 0.001 8
Wyoming 4 15680 0.001 8
Oregon 27 13046 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of RENTON

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 RENTON 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 RENTON 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 RENTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 674 90.47
Black/African American 23 3.09
White (Hispanic) 19 2.55
Mixed Race 15 2.01
Native American/Alaskan 9 1.21
Asian/Pacific 5 0.67

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

Meaning of RENTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to RENTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RENTON.

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 RENTON

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