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The ARROWSMITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,061 22612 0 4
United States (1880 census) 435 10804 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +626 -11808 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 548 2955 0.003 34
United Kingdom 3,577 1750 0.008 78
Top States for ARROWSMITH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 119 17850 0.000 4
Florida 94 16196 0.001 6
Illinois 81 14568 0.001 7
Washington 49 12907 0.001 8
Ohio 45 24160 0.000 4
Top States for ARROWSMITH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 29 6780 0.001 13
Kansas 29 9765 0.001 11
New Mexico 19 7055 0.001 10
Nebraska 17 13679 0.001 10
Washington 49 12907 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ARROWSMITH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 970 91.42
White (Hispanic) 34 3.2
Mixed Race 24 2.26
Native American/Alaskan 14 1.32
Asian/Pacific 11 1.04
Black/African American 8 0.75

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

Meaning of ARROWSMITH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ARROWSMITH.

Similar names to ARROWSMITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARROWSMITH.

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 ARROWSMITH

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