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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

'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.

Meaning of GETACHEW in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GETACHEW.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GETACHEW

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