The CATHCART surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,466	6928	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,149	4852	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+3317	-2076	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	410	3851	0.003	25
United Kingdom	1,063	4999	0.002	23

Top States for CATHCART by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	490	5842	0.001	14
South Carolina	330	1958	0.008	82
North Carolina	252	3867	0.003	31
Pennsylvania	228	6758	0.002	19
Texas	227	8189	0.001	11
Top States for CATHCART by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	47	1267	0.010	95
South Carolina	330	1958	0.008	82
Delaware	61	2317	0.008	78
Oregon	147	3018	0.004	43
North Carolina	252	3867	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of CATHCART

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	646	14.46
White (Hispanic)	84	1.88
Mixed Race	70	1.57
Asian/Pacific	46	1.03
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.43
White (Caucasian)	3,601	80.63

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

Similar names to CATHCART

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CATHCART.

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.