The history of your name

The BOATWRIGHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,063 4595 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 989 5502 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +6074 +907 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 132 11138 0.001 8
United Kingdom 242 14658 0.001 5
Top States for BOATWRIGHT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,269 540 0.032 316
Florida 825 2684 0.005 52
Georgia 675 1677 0.008 82
Alabama 468 1630 0.011 105
Texas 440 5078 0.002 21
Top States for BOATWRIGHT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,269 540 0.032 316
Alabama 468 1630 0.011 105
Georgia 675 1677 0.008 82
Washington DC 32 1985 0.006 56
Florida 825 2684 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of BOATWRIGHT

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 BOATWRIGHT 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 BOATWRIGHT 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 BOATWRIGHT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 110 1.56
White (Hispanic) 107 1.51
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.33
Asian/Pacific 17 0.24
White (Caucasian) 4,572 64.73
Black/African American 2,234 31.63

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

Meaning of BOATWRIGHT in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BOATWRIGHT.

Similar names to BOATWRIGHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOATWRIGHT.

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 BOATWRIGHT

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