The ABERNATHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,194	2051	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	3,584	1710	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+12610	-341	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	2	255668	0	0
United Kingdom	3	34024	0	0

Top States for ABERNATHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,740	678	0.022	216
Georgia	1,668	641	0.020	204
Alabama	1,393	523	0.031	313
Texas	1,214	1995	0.006	58
Missouri	989	671	0.018	177
Top States for ABERNATHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,393	523	0.031	313
North Carolina	1,740	678	0.022	216
Georgia	1,668	641	0.020	204
Missouri	989	671	0.018	177
Tennessee	941	937	0.017	165

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ABERNATHY

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

Ethnic distribution of ABERNATHY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	215	1.33
White (Hispanic)	189	1.17
Native American/Alaskan	83	0.51
Asian/Pacific	66	0.41
White (Caucasian)	12,960	80.03
Black/African American	2,680	16.55

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

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

Similar names to ABERNATHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABERNATHY.

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.