The history of your name

The KEATON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,333 3918 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,503 3834 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +6830 -84 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 95 14914 0.001 6
United Kingdom 68 25292 0 1
Top States for KEATON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,074 1265 0.009 95
North Carolina 679 1769 0.008 84
Florida 580 3608 0.004 36
Georgia 492 2111 0.006 60
West Virginia 473 580 0.026 262
Top States for KEATON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 473 580 0.026 262
Ohio 1,074 1265 0.009 95
North Carolina 679 1769 0.008 84
Tennessee 443 1944 0.008 78
Kentucky 286 1986 0.007 71

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

Classification and Origin of KEATON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 106 1.27
Mixed Race 104 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.49
Asian/Pacific 34 0.41
White (Caucasian) 5,863 70.36
Black/African American 2,185 26.22

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

Meaning of KEATON in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEATON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEATON.

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 KEATON

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