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The MACINTOSH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,353 12149 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 154 23316 0 3
Change since 1880 +2199 +11167 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 324 4853 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,364 4064 0.003 30
Top States for MACINTOSH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 287 8968 0.001 8
New York 231 8093 0.001 12
Massachusetts 190 4341 0.003 30
Michigan 154 7871 0.002 15
Florida 150 11634 0.001 9
Top States for MACINTOSH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 83 2244 0.007 67
Massachusetts 190 4341 0.003 30
Rhode Island 30 5026 0.003 29
Alaska 12 7996 0.002 19
Michigan 154 7871 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of MACINTOSH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 156 6.63
White (Hispanic) 42 1.78
Mixed Race 33 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.47
Asian/Pacific 10 0.42
White (Caucasian) 2,101 89.29

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

Meaning of MACINTOSH in historical publications

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

Similar names to MACINTOSH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACINTOSH.

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 MACINTOSH

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