The BOTTOM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,622	16349	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	602	8311	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+1020	-8038	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	121	12032	0.001	7
United Kingdom	453	9511	0.001	10

Top States for BOTTOM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	308	2108	0.008	76
California	149	18671	0.000	4
Illinois	137	11411	0.001	11
Indiana	92	9230	0.002	15
Texas	86	19572	0.000	4
Top States for BOTTOM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	308	2108	0.008	76
Kansas	78	5036	0.003	29
Wyoming	11	7435	0.002	22
Oklahoma	64	7311	0.002	19
Indiana	92	9230	0.002	15

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

Classification and Origin of BOTTOM

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 BOTTOM 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 BOTTOM 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 BOTTOM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	93	5.73
Mixed Race	31	1.91
White (Hispanic)	29	1.79
White (Caucasian)	1,459	89.95
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to BOTTOM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOTTOM.

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.