The CARGILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,276	7198	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	938	5758	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+3338	-1440	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	370	4287	0.002	23
United Kingdom	1,881	3116	0.004	41

Top States for CARGILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	556	3932	0.003	27
California	413	6580	0.001	12
Oklahoma	285	1629	0.008	83
Michigan	276	4264	0.003	28
New York	226	8327	0.001	12
Top States for CARGILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	285	1629	0.008	83
Vermont	27	3501	0.004	44
Alabama	194	3058	0.004	44
New Hampshire	53	3252	0.004	43
Montana	35	3681	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of CARGILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARGILL 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 CARGILL 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 CARGILL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	806	18.85
White (Hispanic)	107	2.5
Mixed Race	77	1.8
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.75
Asian/Pacific	16	0.37
White (Caucasian)	3,238	75.72

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

Similar names to CARGILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARGILL.

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.