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The ARNETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,027 2075 0.006 59
United States (1880 census) 3,106 1956 0.006 62
Change since 1880 +12921 -119 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 209 7251 0.001 13
United Kingdom 801 6259 0.002 17
Top States for ARNETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,750 774 0.015 154
Kentucky 1,501 416 0.037 371
Indiana 1,147 629 0.019 189
California 1,099 2998 0.003 32
Texas 1,073 2326 0.005 51
Top States for ARNETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,501 416 0.037 371
Indiana 1,147 629 0.019 189
Ohio 1,750 774 0.015 154
West Virginia 265 1085 0.015 147
Tennessee 764 1216 0.013 134

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of ARNETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 220 1.37
White (Hispanic) 220 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 95 0.59
Asian/Pacific 80 0.5
White (Caucasian) 14,060 87.73
Black/African American 1,353 8.44

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

Meaning of ARNETT in historical publications

ARNOTT. ARNETT. Corruptions of Arnold.

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 ARNETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARNETT.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ARNETT

The following words are slight variants of ARNETT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.