The CANTERBURY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,332	7112	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	379	11964	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+3953	+4852	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	57	22832	0	3
United Kingdom	138	20504	0	3

Top States for CANTERBURY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	975	239	0.054	539
Ohio	552	2504	0.005	49
Florida	255	7495	0.002	16
Texas	225	8118	0.001	11
Alabama	167	3436	0.004	38
Top States for CANTERBURY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	975	239	0.054	539
Ohio	552	2504	0.005	49
Alabama	167	3436	0.004	38
Mississippi	82	3708	0.003	29
Colorado	123	4446	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of CANTERBURY

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 CANTERBURY 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 CANTERBURY 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 CANTERBURY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	87	2.01
White (Hispanic)	53	1.22
Mixed Race	48	1.11
Asian/Pacific	16	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.32
White (Caucasian)	4,114	94.97

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

Similar names to CANTERBURY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANTERBURY.

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.