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The CARLETON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,077 7528 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 1,688 3468 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +2389 -4060 -0.001 -19
Other Countries
Australia 152 9747 0.001 9
United Kingdom 583 7980 0.001 13
Top States for CARLETON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 405 6264 0.001 12
Massachusetts 324 2504 0.005 51
Texas 279 6361 0.001 13
Florida 208 8305 0.001 13
New York 190 9167 0.001 10
Top States for CARLETON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 83 1173 0.014 136
Maine 163 1387 0.013 128
New Hampshire 132 1359 0.011 107
Massachusetts 324 2504 0.005 51
Oregon 95 4201 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of CARLETON

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 CARLETON 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 CARLETON 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 CARLETON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 72 1.77
White (Hispanic) 71 1.74
Mixed Race 47 1.15
Asian/Pacific 22 0.54
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.44
White (Caucasian) 3,847 94.36

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

Meaning of CARLETON in historical publications

CARLTON. CARLETON. The English gazetteer shows twenty-two parishes, townships, &c. so called, and there are many others. Lord Dorchester's family deduce from Carleton, co. Cumberland.

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 CARLETON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLETON.

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 CARLETON

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