The KELTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,408	11903	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	786	6644	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+1622	-5259	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	157	9454	0.001	10
United Kingdom	90	24487	0	2

Top States for KELTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	431	4595	0.002	21
California	194	12142	0.001	6
Tennessee	155	4201	0.003	27
Florida	125	13187	0.001	8
Illinois	123	10007	0.001	10
Top States for KELTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	42	2301	0.007	69
Tennessee	155	4201	0.003	27
Mississippi	69	4005	0.002	24
Arkansas	57	4812	0.002	21
Washington DC	12	4364	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of KELTON

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 KELTON 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 KELTON 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 KELTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	255	10.59
Mixed Race	40	1.66
White (Hispanic)	36	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.91
Asian/Pacific	12	0.5
White (Caucasian)	2,043	84.84

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

Similar names to KELTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KELTON.

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.