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The DRAYTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,944 4669 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 1,398 4076 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +5546 -593 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 685 2353 0.004 42
United Kingdom 1,294 4256 0.003 28
Top States for DRAYTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,267 585 0.032 316
Florida 723 3250 0.005 45
New York 683 3233 0.004 36
Georgia 500 2279 0.006 61
Pennsylvania 400 4346 0.003 33
Top States for DRAYTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,267 585 0.032 316
Washington DC 70 1014 0.012 122
Georgia 500 2279 0.006 61
Delaware 40 3901 0.005 51
New Jersey 387 2827 0.005 46

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

Classification and Origin of DRAYTON

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 DRAYTON 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 DRAYTON 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 DRAYTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 164 2.36
White (Hispanic) 134 1.93
Asian/Pacific 16 0.23
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.19
Black/African American 5,559 80.05
White (Caucasian) 1,058 15.24

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

Meaning of DRAYTON in historical publications

DRAYTON. Towns, parishes, &c., in COS. Berks, Leicester, Norfolk, Oxon, Somerset, Staiford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Nottingham, &c.

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 DRAYTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRAYTON.

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 DRAYTON

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