The ATHERTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,435	5000	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	2,436	2506	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+3999	-2494	-0.003	-25
Other Countries
Australia	901	1815	0.006	55
United Kingdom	7,640	805	0.017	166

Top States for ATHERTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	715	4156	0.002	21
Texas	455	4682	0.002	22
Michigan	393	3012	0.004	40
Pennsylvania	388	3940	0.003	32
Florida	378	5295	0.002	24
Top States for ATHERTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	131	775	0.022	215
Kentucky	369	1563	0.009	91
Maine	106	2137	0.008	83
New Hampshire	85	2258	0.007	69
Kansas	128	2559	0.005	48

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

Classification and Origin of ATHERTON

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 ATHERTON 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 ATHERTON 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 ATHERTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	157	2.44
Black/African American	107	1.66
Mixed Race	102	1.59
Asian/Pacific	38	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.31
White (Caucasian)	6,011	93.41

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

Similar names to ATHERTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATHERTON.

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.