The GETACHEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	450	44895	0	2
United States (1880 census)	-1	133355	0	0
Change since 1880	+451	+88460	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	1	315880	0	0
United Kingdom	16	29096	0	0

Top States for GETACHEW by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	84	8027	0.001	12
Maryland	58	9231	0.001	11
California	51	40021	0.000	2
Texas	38	31216	0.000	2
New York	30	54488	0.000	2
Top States for GETACHEW by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	15	3720	0.003	26
Virginia	84	8027	0.001	12
Maryland	58	9231	0.001	11
Nevada	10	21583	0.001	5
Georgia	28	16918	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of GETACHEW

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Ethiopia

Language of origin: Amharic

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GETACHEW 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.

Ethnic distribution of GETACHEW in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	391	86.89
Mixed Race	45	10
White (Caucasian)	8	1.78
Asian/Pacific	5	1.11
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to GETACHEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GETACHEW.

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.