The EATON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	46,403	676	0.017	172
United States (1880 census)	16,878	330	0.034	338
Change since 1880	+29525	-346	-0.017	-166
Other Countries
Australia	2,389	674	0.015	146
United Kingdom	10,953	545	0.024	238

Top States for EATON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,278	1005	0.010	97
Texas	2,764	954	0.013	133
Florida	2,461	818	0.015	154
New York	2,201	782	0.012	116
Massachusetts	1,861	431	0.029	293
Top States for EATON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,166	153	0.091	915
New Hampshire	913	122	0.074	739
Vermont	318	223	0.052	522
Missouri	1,797	340	0.032	321
Massachusetts	1,861	431	0.029	293

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

Classification and Origin of EATON

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 EATON 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 EATON 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 EATON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	687	1.48
Mixed Race	575	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	283	0.61
Asian/Pacific	204	0.44
White (Caucasian)	40,250	86.74
Black/African American	4,404	9.49

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

Similar names to EATON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EATON.

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.