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The KNIGHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,771 6550 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 777 6734 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +3994 +184 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 116 12475 0.001 7
United Kingdom 1,121 4783 0.002 24
Top States for KNIGHTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 493 2160 0.006 60
Texas 437 4987 0.002 21
Florida 378 5487 0.002 24
Utah 294 1070 0.013 132
Alabama 277 2453 0.006 62
Top States for KNIGHTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 294 1070 0.013 132
Mississippi 182 2185 0.006 64
Alabama 277 2453 0.006 62
Georgia 493 2160 0.006 60
Idaho 75 2537 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of KNIGHTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 86 1.8
White (Hispanic) 48 1.01
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.48
Asian/Pacific 17 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,024 63.38
Black/African American 1,573 32.97

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

Meaning of KNIGHTON in historical publications

KNIGHTON. Pai-ishes and places in cos. Dorset, Leicester, Stafford, "\'orcester, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KNIGHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNIGHTON.

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 KNIGHTON

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