The ACTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,666	6674	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,179	4748	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+3487	-1926	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	386	4110	0.002	24
United Kingdom	2,374	2551	0.005	52

Top States for ACTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	497	1450	0.008	82
Missouri	352	2008	0.006	63
Alabama	304	2145	0.007	68
Ohio	303	4441	0.003	27
California	293	8761	0.001	9
Top States for ACTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	497	1450	0.008	82
Alabama	304	2145	0.007	68
Missouri	352	2008	0.006	63
Wyoming	26	2356	0.005	53
Montana	41	2959	0.005	45

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

Classification and Origin of ACTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	86	1.84
Black/African American	73	1.56
Asian/Pacific	41	0.88
Mixed Race	39	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.6
White (Caucasian)	4,399	94.28

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

Similar names to ACTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ACTON.

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.