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The CARRAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,937 7782 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 536 9137 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3401 +1355 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32432 0 0
Top States for CARRAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 652 1941 0.008 81
Texas 458 4927 0.002 22
South Carolina 442 1598 0.011 110
Florida 347 6126 0.002 22
Mississippi 249 1747 0.009 88
Top States for CARRAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 442 1598 0.011 110
Mississippi 249 1747 0.009 88
North Carolina 652 1941 0.008 81
Louisiana 209 2968 0.005 47
Virginia 195 4488 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 CARRAWAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARRAWAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARRAWAY in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARRAWAY by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARRAWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 46 1.17
White (Hispanic) 38 0.97
Asian/Pacific 11 0.28
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.13
White (Caucasian) 2,651 67.34
Black/African American 1,186 30.12

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

Meaning of CARRAWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARRAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARRAWAY.

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 CARRAWAY

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