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The CATENA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 558 37534 0 2
United States (1880 census) 1 111821 0 0
Change since 1880 +557 +74287 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 58 22692 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CATENA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 191 4148 0.002 23
New York 73 20582 0.000 4
Florida 54 24262 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 48 24030 0.000 4
California 46 38403 0.000 1
Top States for CATENA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 191 4148 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 48 24030 0.000 4
New York 73 20582 0.000 4
Maryland 18 22262 0.000 3
Florida 54 24262 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of CATENA

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

Ethnic distribution of CATENA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 501 89.78
White (Hispanic) 33 5.91
Asian/Pacific 16 2.87
Mixed Race 7 1.25
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of CATENA in historical publications

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

Similar names to CATENA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CATENA.

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 CATENA

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