The GROAT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,866	14622	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	724	7176	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+1142	-7446	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	204	7419	0.001	12
United Kingdom	300	12743	0.001	7

Top States for GROAT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	247	4894	0.002	25
New York	199	9689	0.001	10
California	151	16110	0.000	4
Washington	116	6316	0.002	20
Oregon	102	4299	0.003	30
Top States for GROAT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	29	3107	0.005	46
Oregon	102	4299	0.003	30
Michigan	247	4894	0.002	25
Idaho	29	6297	0.002	22
Iowa	59	7656	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of GROAT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	36	1.93
White (Hispanic)	25	1.34
Asian/Pacific	19	1.02
Mixed Race	18	0.96
Black/African American	11	0.59
White (Caucasian)	1,757	94.16

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

Similar names to GROAT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GROAT.

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.