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The CATTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 743 29840 0 3
United States (1880 census) 321 13562 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +422 -16278 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 159 9303 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,202 4506 0.003 26
Top States for CATTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 148 8182 0.001 12
California 101 21284 0.000 3
Florida 46 30954 0.000 3
Michigan 46 24764 0.000 5
Minnesota 35 20078 0.001 7
Top States for CATTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 148 8182 0.001 12
New Hampshire 11 12524 0.001 9
Nebraska 13 17084 0.001 8
Minnesota 35 20078 0.001 7
Hawaii 8 12737 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of CATTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 700 94.21
White (Hispanic) 20 2.69
Mixed Race 9 1.21
Asian/Pacific 7 0.94
Black/African American 7 0.94
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of CATTON in historical publications

CATTON. See Caton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CATTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CATTON.

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 CATTON

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