The CARMICHAEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,011	1729	0.007	70
United States (1880 census)	3,008	2032	0.006	60
Change since 1880	+16003	+303	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	1,670	976	0.01	102
United Kingdom	5,620	1109	0.012	122

Top States for CARMICHAEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,513	2089	0.004	45
Florida	1,446	1421	0.009	90
Texas	1,157	2064	0.006	55
Georgia	1,013	1051	0.012	124
North Carolina	958	1276	0.012	119
Top States for CARMICHAEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	283	901	0.022	222
Alabama	851	887	0.019	191
South Carolina	577	1140	0.014	144
Indiana	844	862	0.014	139
Georgia	1,013	1051	0.012	124

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

Classification and Origin of CARMICHAEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	300	1.58
White (Hispanic)	276	1.45
Asian/Pacific	106	0.56
Native American/Alaskan	95	0.5
White (Caucasian)	14,249	74.95
Black/African American	3,985	20.96

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

Similar names to CARMICHAEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARMICHAEL.

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.