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The COLTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,436 8784 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 1,796 3288 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +1640 -5496 -0.003 -23
Other Countries
Australia 9 93400 0 1
United Kingdom 44 26515 0 1
Top States for COLTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 225 3955 0.004 40
South Carolina 220 3042 0.005 55
Texas 207 10149 0.001 10
Michigan 205 7198 0.002 21
Florida 191 11333 0.001 12
Top States for COLTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 32 2217 0.006 56
South Carolina 220 3042 0.005 55
Missouri 225 3955 0.004 40
Arizona 173 4114 0.003 34
Indiana 171 5327 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of COLTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 75 2.18
White (Hispanic) 57 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.49
Asian/Pacific 6 0.17
White (Caucasian) 2,039 59.34
Black/African American 1,242 36.15

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

Meaning of COLTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to COLTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLTER.

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 COLTER

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