The BUTCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,077	1478	0.008	82
United States (1880 census)	5,238	1161	0.01	105
Change since 1880	+16839	-317	-0.002	-23
Other Countries
Australia	3,110	494	0.019	190
United Kingdom	14,868	397	0.032	324

Top States for BUTCHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	2,388	527	0.021	210
California	1,597	2065	0.005	47
Texas	1,317	1913	0.006	63
West Virginia	1,158	200	0.064	640
Florida	1,152	1856	0.007	72
Top States for BUTCHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,158	200	0.064	640
Delaware	170	814	0.022	217
Ohio	2,388	527	0.021	210
Utah	426	717	0.019	191
Alaska	118	666	0.019	188

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

Classification and Origin of BUTCHER

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 BUTCHER 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 BUTCHER 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 BUTCHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	419	1.9
Mixed Race	373	1.69
Native American/Alaskan	210	0.95
Asian/Pacific	79	0.36
White (Caucasian)	19,147	86.73
Black/African American	1,850	8.38

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

Similar names to BUTCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUTCHER.

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.