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The CARNEGIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,611 16444 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 61 44336 0 1
Change since 1880 +1550 +27892 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 264 5856 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,110 4827 0.002 24
Top States for CARNEGIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 216 9072 0.001 14
New York 187 10710 0.001 10
California 148 16971 0.000 4
Michigan 101 13008 0.001 10
Georgia 98 7219 0.001 12
Top States for CARNEGIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 13 4252 0.002 23
Florida 216 9072 0.001 14
Maine 17 8573 0.001 13
Georgia 98 7219 0.001 12
Maryland 58 9859 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of CARNEGIE

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 CARNEGIE 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 CARNEGIE 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 CARNEGIE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 853 52.95
Black/African American 666 41.34
Mixed Race 58 3.6
White (Hispanic) 24 1.49
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CARNEGIE in historical publications

CARNEGIE. The first of the earl of Northesk's family on record, is Duthac de C. 1410. The locality does not appear in the Gaz. of Scotland.

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 CARNEGIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARNEGIE.

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 CARNEGIE

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