The ARBUTHNOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	734	30120	0	3
United States (1880 census)	121	27652	0	2
Change since 1880	+613	-2468	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	141	10432	0.001	9
United Kingdom	278	13370	0.001	6

Top States for ARBUTHNOT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	96	5059	0.002	21
Illinois	75	16198	0.001	6
Mississippi	71	3894	0.002	25
Colorado	59	8410	0.001	14
Florida	53	27609	0.000	3
Top States for ARBUTHNOT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	71	3894	0.002	25
Louisiana	96	5059	0.002	21
Colorado	59	8410	0.001	14
South Dakota	8	13471	0.001	11
Kansas	23	12458	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of ARBUTHNOT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	533	72.62
Black/African American	189	25.75
White (Hispanic)	6	0.82
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Mixed Race	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Meaning of ARBUTHNOT in historical publications

(origin: Local) First assumed by the proprietors of the land and barony of Arbuthnot in the Mearns, Scotland. The name is said to have been anciently written Aberbuthnoth, which signifies the dwelling near the confluence of the river with the sea, from Aber, the mouth of a river, both, a dwelling, and neth, a stream that descends, or is lower than some other relative object.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ARBUTHNOT. A parish in Kincardineshire. The first of the family was Hugh de Aburbothenoth, Avho assumed his surname from the lands which he acquired in 1105 with the daughter of Osbert Olifard, and on which his descendants have resided for more than twenty generations. Peerage.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to ARBUTHNOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARBUTHNOT.

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.