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The CHRISTIAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 51,177 597 0.019 190
United States (1880 census) 10,218 586 0.02 204
Change since 1880 +40959 -11 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 1,408 1162 0.009 86
United Kingdom 3,972 1571 0.009 86
Top States for CHRISTIAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,194 637 0.020 201
California 3,525 975 0.010 104
Florida 2,935 721 0.018 184
Virginia 2,912 289 0.041 411
Ohio 2,600 492 0.023 229
Top States for CHRISTIAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 856 306 0.047 473
Tennessee 2,458 367 0.043 432
Virginia 2,912 289 0.041 411
Alabama 1,746 425 0.039 393
Oklahoma 1,269 359 0.037 368

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

Classification and Origin of CHRISTIAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 947 1.85
Asian/Pacific 906 1.77
Native American/Alaskan 297 0.58
White (Caucasian) 35,665 69.69
Black/African American 12,001 23.45
White (Hispanic) 1,361 2.66

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

Meaning of CHRISTIAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHRISTIAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHRISTIAN.

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 CHRISTIAN

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