The ELDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	28,783	1118	0.011	107
United States (1880 census)	8,064	746	0.016	161
Change since 1880	+20719	-372	-0.005	-54
Other Countries
Australia	1,049	1573	0.006	64
United Kingdom	3,980	1570	0.009	87

Top States for ELDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,175	1522	0.006	64
Texas	2,129	1197	0.010	102
Georgia	1,831	581	0.022	224
Florida	1,448	1438	0.009	91
Ohio	1,314	1014	0.012	116
Top States for ELDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,008	603	0.025	249
Georgia	1,831	581	0.022	224
Missouri	1,119	581	0.020	200
Kansas	526	493	0.020	196
Tennessee	1,071	816	0.019	188

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

Classification and Origin of ELDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	426	1.48
White (Hispanic)	391	1.36
Native American/Alaskan	127	0.44
Asian/Pacific	109	0.38
White (Caucasian)	23,219	80.67
Black/African American	4,513	15.68

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

Similar names to ELDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELDER.

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.