The BEATTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	25,245	1283	0.009	94
United States (1880 census)	5,571	1090	0.011	111
Change since 1880	+19674	-193	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	683	2361	0.004	42
United Kingdom	1,346	4108	0.003	29

Top States for BEATTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,529	485	0.021	206
Ohio	2,128	601	0.019	187
California	1,722	1946	0.005	51
Florida	1,504	1422	0.009	94
North Carolina	1,425	859	0.018	177
Top States for BEATTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,529	485	0.021	206
Ohio	2,128	601	0.019	187
North Carolina	1,425	859	0.018	177
West Virginia	280	1011	0.015	155
Kentucky	549	1108	0.014	136

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

Classification and Origin of BEATTY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	366	1.45
White (Hispanic)	346	1.37
Native American/Alaskan	177	0.7
Asian/Pacific	93	0.37
White (Caucasian)	20,817	82.46
Black/African American	3,448	13.66

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

Meaning of BEATTY in historical publications

From the Celtic Biatach. Anciently, in Ireland, lands were assigned by the government to a certain number of persons who were appointed to keep houses of entertainment, and to exercise hospitality in the different provinces; they were called Biatachs. The office was considered honorable, and besides the lands assigned by the king, they were the lords of seven boroughs or villages, feeding seven herds of one hundred and twenty oxen each, besides the grain raised from seven ploughs every year. Beathaich, in the Gaelic, signifies to feed, nourish, to welcome, to support. "Beata mor," Irish, to have a great estate. Beatha, Gaelic, life, food, welcome, salutation.

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

Similar names to BEATTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEATTY.

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.