The ABERNETHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,612	11141	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	608	8242	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2004	-2899	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	281	5521	0.002	17
United Kingdom	1,152	4686	0.003	25

Top States for ABERNETHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	855	1357	0.011	106
California	181	13000	0.001	5
Pennsylvania	148	9493	0.001	12
Texas	147	10953	0.001	7
Florida	139	12073	0.001	9
Top States for ABERNETHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	855	1357	0.011	106
South Carolina	105	4321	0.003	26
North Dakota	12	8311	0.002	19
Delaware	12	9890	0.002	15
Wyoming	7	9542	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of ABERNETHY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	84	3.22
White (Hispanic)	34	1.3
Mixed Race	21	0.8
Asian/Pacific	8	0.31
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.31
White (Caucasian)	2,457	94.07

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

Similar names to ABERNETHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABERNETHY.

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.