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The CAROLINA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 918 25329 0 3
United States (1880 census) 181 20793 0 4
Change since 1880 +737 -4536 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAROLINA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 147 3980 0.004 37
North Carolina 98 7977 0.001 12
California 84 30662 0.000 2
Oklahoma 84 5790 0.002 24
New York 80 26435 0.000 4
Top States for CAROLINA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 147 3980 0.004 37
Oklahoma 84 5790 0.002 24
North Carolina 98 7977 0.001 12
Arkansas 31 8919 0.001 12
Connecticut 26 20990 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of CAROLINA

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

Ethnic distribution of CAROLINA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 641 69.83
White (Hispanic) 127 13.83
White (Caucasian) 94 10.24
Mixed Race 32 3.49
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 CAROLINA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of CAROLINA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAROLINA.

Similar names to CAROLINA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAROLINA.

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 CAROLINA

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