The CARAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,268	5137	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,221	4611	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+5047	-526	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	35760	0	0

Top States for CARAWAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,533	1687	0.007	74
Florida	484	4443	0.003	30
Louisiana	322	2020	0.007	72
California	321	8768	0.001	9
Alabama	294	2349	0.007	66
Top States for CARAWAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	228	1843	0.008	80
Texas	1,533	1687	0.007	74
Louisiana	322	2020	0.007	72
Alabama	294	2349	0.007	66
Tennessee	290	2886	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of CARAWAY

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

Ethnic distribution of CARAWAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	117	1.87
Mixed Race	98	1.56
Native American/Alaskan	49	0.78
Asian/Pacific	33	0.53
White (Caucasian)	4,949	78.96
Black/African American	1,022	16.31

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

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

Similar names to CARAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARAWAY.

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.