The CRANSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,128	9531	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,037	5290	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+2091	-4241	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	479	3339	0.003	29
United Kingdom	1,597	3561	0.003	35

Top States for CRANSTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	355	7556	0.001	10
New York	312	6118	0.002	16
Florida	179	10097	0.001	11
Ohio	154	8527	0.001	14
Oregon	141	3050	0.004	41
Top States for CRANSTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	123	3315	0.004	42
Oregon	141	3050	0.004	41
Montana	30	4547	0.003	33
Kansas	82	4027	0.003	31
Rhode Island	23	6554	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of CRANSTON

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 CRANSTON 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 CRANSTON 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 CRANSTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	135	4.32
White (Hispanic)	47	1.5
Mixed Race	43	1.37
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.96
Asian/Pacific	17	0.54
White (Caucasian)	2,856	91.3

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

Similar names to CRANSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CRANSTON.

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.