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The BARTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,387 12009 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 855 6202 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +1532 -5807 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 607 2663 0.004 37
United Kingdom 1,780 3245 0.004 39
Top States for BARTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 528 576 0.041 414
Massachusetts 255 4121 0.004 40
California 219 13838 0.001 6
Florida 169 12844 0.001 11
New York 120 18984 0.001 6
Top States for BARTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 528 576 0.041 414
New Hampshire 50 4158 0.004 40
Massachusetts 255 4121 0.004 40
Vermont 19 5644 0.003 31
Delaware 16 9938 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of BARTER

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 BARTER 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 BARTER 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 BARTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 136 5.7
Mixed Race 38 1.59
White (Hispanic) 38 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.46
Asian/Pacific 6 0.25
White (Caucasian) 2,158 90.41

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

Meaning of BARTER in historical publications

BARTER. Probably the 0. Eng. harvator, one who stirs up strife between the king's subjects, either at law or otherwise.

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 BARTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARTER.

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 BARTER

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