The ASHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,619	2830	0.004	43
United States (1880 census)	3,584	1711	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+8035	-1119	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	2,668	590	0.016	163
United Kingdom	16,445	346	0.036	358

Top States for ASHTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,132	2762	0.003	33
Texas	801	2886	0.004	38
Florida	787	2621	0.005	49
Pennsylvania	658	2294	0.005	54
New York	588	3293	0.003	31
Top States for ASHTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	500	546	0.022	224
Washington DC	96	648	0.017	168
Vermont	61	1751	0.010	100
Idaho	127	1369	0.010	98
Maryland	490	1237	0.009	93

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

Classification and Origin of ASHTON

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 ASHTON 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 ASHTON 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 ASHTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	230	1.98
Mixed Race	172	1.48
Asian/Pacific	67	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.34
White (Caucasian)	9,565	82.32
Black/African American	1,545	13.3

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

Similar names to ASHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASHTON.

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.