The FLETCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	80,932	352	0.03	300
United States (1880 census)	20,441	250	0.041	409
Change since 1880	+60491	-102	-0.011	-109
Other Countries
Australia	8,182	147	0.05	501
United Kingdom	41,570	105	0.091	905

Top States for FLETCHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,360	394	0.031	305
California	5,861	551	0.017	173
Florida	5,587	311	0.035	350
Ohio	3,663	316	0.032	323
Georgia	3,080	323	0.038	376
Top States for FLETCHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	379	178	0.062	623
Arkansas	1,664	200	0.062	622
Maine	758	292	0.059	595
Tennessee	3,030	265	0.053	533
Delaware	376	303	0.048	480

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

Classification and Origin of FLETCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	591	0.73
Asian/Pacific	380	0.47
White (Caucasian)	61,120	75.52
Black/African American	16,122	19.92
Mixed Race	1,368	1.69
White (Hispanic)	1,360	1.68

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

Meaning of FLETCHER in historical publications

A maker of arrows, or superintendant of archery. From the French flèche, an arrow.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

FLETCHER. Fr. fleche, an arrow. A maker of arrows— a common and most uecessary trade in the middle ages. Le Flecher, Le Flecchir, Le Fletcher. U.K. FLEWELLEN. (Lond. Direct.) A corruption of Llewellyn, the AVelsh Ijaptismal and family name. FLEXMAN. See Flaxman. FLIGG. See Flegg. FLINT Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors had a suhordinate deity whom they named Flint, and whose idol was an actual flmtstone of large size. The name of the god vould readily hecome the appellation ot a man, and that would in time become hereditary as a surname. Such it had l.econie, Avithout any prefix, at the date otthe H.R., and even in Domesday we have niSuftok an Alwin Flint. The town of Flmt, m North Wales, may however have a claim to its origin.

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 FLETCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLETCHER.

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.