The ALCANTARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,112	4017	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	9	89231	0	0
Change since 1880	+8103	+85214	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	108	13391	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ALCANTARA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,400	1668	0.007	71
New York	965	2384	0.005	51
Florida	737	3415	0.005	46
Texas	626	4230	0.003	30
Illinois	511	3098	0.004	41
Top States for ALCANTARA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nevada	173	1652	0.009	87
California	2,400	1668	0.007	71
New Jersey	447	2579	0.005	53
New York	965	2384	0.005	51
Hawaii	61	2127	0.005	50

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

Classification and Origin of ALCANTARA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	488	6.02
Mixed Race	167	2.06
Black/African American	63	0.78
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.07
White (Hispanic)	5,666	69.85
Asian/Pacific	1,722	21.23

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

Similar names to ALCANTARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALCANTARA.

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.