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The CAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 564 37200 0 2
United States (1880 census) 628 8044 0.001 13
Change since 1880 -64 -29156 +N/A -11
Other Countries
Australia 106 13638 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 66 35147 0.000 2
Texas 42 31094 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 40 36140 0.000 3
Ohio 32 37361 0.000 3
Florida 30 50867 0.000 2
Top States for CAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 12 12510 0.001 10
Nebraska 11 20830 0.001 6
Kansas 17 17340 0.001 6
Rhode Island 6 20200 0.001 6
Louisiana 21 17507 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of CAR

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAR surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 332 58.87
White (Hispanic) 107 18.97
Black/African American 106 18.79
Asian/Pacific 10 1.77
Mixed Race 9 1.6
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

CAR is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAR in historical publications

j"CAER. CAR. The initial syllable of many local names, which have become surnames, especiallj' in Scotland and Cornwall. Jt is a Celtic word signifying " an artificial military strength, whether fort or castle."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAR.

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 CAR

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