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The CATHERWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 337 56687 0 1
United States (1880 census) 161 22511 0 3
Change since 1880 +176 -34176 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 39 30901 0 2
United Kingdom 227 15218 0 5
Top States for CATHERWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 33 62098 0.000 1
Massachusetts 29 24723 0.000 5
New York 28 60154 0.000 1
Oklahoma 26 13032 0.001 8
Michigan 23 48346 0.000 2
Top States for CATHERWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 26 13032 0.001 8
Nebraska 8 24544 0.000 5
Massachusetts 29 24723 0.000 5
Iowa 12 28615 0.000 4
Oregon 10 34582 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 CATHERWOOD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CATHERWOOD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CATHERWOOD in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CATHERWOOD by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CATHERWOOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 322 95.55
Black/African American 6 1.78
White (Hispanic) 5 1.48
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of CATHERWOOD in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic. Local) A fenny-wood, wet ground, from Cathar, soft, boggy ground; or the fortified place in a wood, from Cathair, Gaelic, a town, a fortified city, a guard, a sentinel.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to CATHERWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CATHERWOOD.

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 CATHERWOOD

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