The BATH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,742	10692	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	864	6154	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+1878	-4538	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	953	1734	0.006	58
United Kingdom	2,302	2618	0.005	50

Top States for BATH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	349	7786	0.001	10
Wisconsin	202	3800	0.004	38
Colorado	192	2913	0.004	45
Pennsylvania	156	9605	0.001	13
Florida	142	12581	0.001	9
Top States for BATH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	43	1386	0.009	87
Colorado	192	2913	0.004	45
Wisconsin	202	3800	0.004	38
Utah	84	3299	0.004	38
Kansas	46	7019	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of BATH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	299	10.9
Mixed Race	45	1.64
Black/African American	42	1.53
White (Hispanic)	42	1.53
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.33
White (Caucasian)	2,305	84.06

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

Meaning of BATH in historical publications

(origin: Sax. Local) A town in the county of Somerset, Eng., famous for its hot baths; so named from the Saxon, bad, Teutonic, bad, a place to bathe or wash in. It was called by the Saxons Acmanceaster, or the "sick folks' town;" and by the Britons, Caerbaddon, from Caer, a fortified place or city, and baddon, a bathing-place, from badd, a bath.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BATH. BATHE. A city in Somersetshire.

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 BATH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BATH.

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.