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The GARTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,887 10245 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 946 5713 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +1941 -4532 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 605 2674 0.004 37
United Kingdom 647 7350 0.001 14
Top States for GARTH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 297 2426 0.007 67
Illinois 252 5701 0.002 20
Michigan 219 6165 0.002 22
Texas 201 9732 0.001 10
California 183 14835 0.001 5
Top States for GARTH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 297 2426 0.007 67
Mississippi 181 2287 0.006 64
Tennessee 161 4636 0.003 28
Missouri 141 5640 0.003 25
Kentucky 100 4777 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of GARTH

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 GARTH 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 GARTH 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 GARTH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 998 34.57
White (Hispanic) 131 4.54
Mixed Race 65 2.25
Black/African American 1,683 58.3
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GARTH in historical publications

(origin: Welsh. Local) A hill or promontory; Gart, Gaelic, a head.

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


GARTH. A yard, or any small enclosure. Also places in cos. Montgomery and Glamorgan. It is a prefix to several names of places.

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 GARTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARTH.

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 GARTH

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