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The SHOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,039 22983 0 4
United States (1880 census) 581 8555 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +458 -14428 +N/A -8
Other Countries
Australia 18 56170 0 1
United Kingdom 147 19662 0 3
Top States for SHOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 137 10431 0.001 11
California 123 18493 0.000 4
Ohio 105 11909 0.001 9
Florida 93 17528 0.001 6
Texas 69 19960 0.000 3
Top States for SHOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 7 8284 0.001 12
Montana 11 12789 0.001 12
West Virginia 22 6544 0.001 12
Pennsylvania 137 10431 0.001 11
Ohio 105 11909 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of SHOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SHOTT 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 SHOTT 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 SHOTT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 980 94.32
Native American/Alaskan 17 1.64
Mixed Race 16 1.54
White (Hispanic) 14 1.35
Asian/Pacific 6 0.58
Black/African American 6 0.58

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

Meaning of SHOTT in historical publications

SHOTT. Perhaps a corruption of Shotts, a parish in co. Lanark.

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 SHOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHOTT.

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 SHOTT

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