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

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 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.

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.