The CARTWRIGHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,654	1522	0.008	80
United States (1880 census)	4,424	1404	0.009	88
Change since 1880	+17230	-118	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	2,267	706	0.014	139
United Kingdom	16,037	355	0.035	349

Top States for CARTWRIGHT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,240	1147	0.011	107
California	1,650	1990	0.005	49
Florida	1,334	1562	0.008	83
Tennessee	1,224	738	0.022	215
Ohio	1,076	1268	0.009	95
Top States for CARTWRIGHT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,224	738	0.022	215
Oklahoma	650	720	0.019	188
Arkansas	358	1014	0.013	134
West Virginia	237	1157	0.013	131
Montana	112	961	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 CARTWRIGHT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARTWRIGHT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARTWRIGHT in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARTWRIGHT by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARTWRIGHT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	455	2.1
White (Hispanic)	372	1.72
Native American/Alaskan	169	0.78
Asian/Pacific	97	0.45
White (Caucasian)	17,115	79.04
Black/African American	3,445	15.91

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

Similar names to CARTWRIGHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARTWRIGHT.

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.