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The HARRISTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 378 51680 0 1
United States (1880 census) 15 79490 0 0
Change since 1880 +363 +27810 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33498 0 0
Top States for HARRISTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 58 11978 0.001 11
North Carolina 55 12659 0.001 7
Virginia 51 14748 0.001 7
Ohio 46 32384 0.000 4
New York 19 102539 0.000 1
Top States for HARRISTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 13 5220 0.002 23
Maryland 58 11978 0.001 11
Virginia 51 14748 0.001 7
North Carolina 55 12659 0.001 7
West Virginia 10 13868 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of HARRISTON

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 HARRISTON 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 HARRISTON 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 HARRISTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 309 81.75
White (Caucasian) 47 12.43
White (Hispanic) 9 2.38
Mixed Race 8 2.12
Asian/Pacific 5 1.32
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of HARRISTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARRISTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARRISTON.

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 HARRISTON

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