The history of your name

The GRATES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 283 65492 0 1
United States (1880 census) 39 56267 0 1
Change since 1880 +244 -9225 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRATES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 95 15028 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 41 37365 0.000 3
New York 38 51093 0.000 2
Florida 25 62546 0.000 2
Minnesota 22 35099 0.000 4
Top States for GRATES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 95 15028 0.001 10
Minnesota 22 35099 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 41 37365 0.000 3
New York 38 51093 0.000 2
Florida 25 62546 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of GRATES

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

Ethnic distribution of GRATES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 269 95.05
Black/African American 7 2.47
White (Hispanic) 6 2.12
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GRATES in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRATES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRATES.

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 GRATES

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