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The GRATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 579 36463 0 2
United States (1880 census) 203 19136 0 4
Change since 1880 +376 -17327 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 120 12155 0.001 10
New Jersey 49 19541 0.001 6
Illinois 34 36751 0.000 3
New York 31 54528 0.000 2
California 26 74406 0.000 1
Top States for GRATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 120 12155 0.001 10
Oregon 26 15520 0.001 8
New Jersey 49 19541 0.001 6
Kansas 14 19681 0.001 5
Connecticut 17 26716 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of GRATER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GRATER surname.

Ethnic distribution of GRATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 560 96.72
Black/African American 5 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.86
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GRATER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GRATER in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRATER.

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 GRATER

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