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The ATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,153 21209 0 4
United States (1880 census) 220 17971 0 4
Change since 1880 +933 -3238 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 2 256519 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 304 5389 0.003 27
Texas 128 14392 0.001 6
Illinois 125 12425 0.001 10
Indiana 71 11366 0.001 12
California 64 39069 0.000 2
Top States for ATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 304 5389 0.003 27
Kansas 35 10397 0.001 13
West Virginia 23 7145 0.001 13
Kentucky 49 8122 0.001 12
Maine 15 10264 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of ATER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ATER surname.

Ethnic distribution of ATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 25 2.17
Black/African American 24 2.08
Asian/Pacific 7 0.61
White (Caucasian) 1,091 94.62
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

ATER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ATER in historical publications

BYVf ATER. See Waters.

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 ATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATER.

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 ATER

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