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The MARSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,127 5232 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 2,592 2352 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +3535 -2880 -0.003 -29
Other Countries
Australia 506 3178 0.003 31
United Kingdom 3,798 1639 0.008 83
Top States for MARSTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 604 355 0.047 474
California 513 5375 0.002 15
Florida 388 5011 0.002 24
Virginia 370 2379 0.005 52
Massachusetts 354 2457 0.006 56
Top States for MARSTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 604 355 0.047 474
New Hampshire 299 605 0.024 242
Idaho 80 2227 0.006 62
Massachusetts 354 2457 0.006 56
Delaware 42 3205 0.005 54

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

Classification and Origin of MARSTON

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 MARSTON 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 MARSTON 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 MARSTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 280 4.57
White (Hispanic) 82 1.34
Mixed Race 66 1.08
Asian/Pacific 35 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.44
White (Caucasian) 5,637 92

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

Meaning of MARSTON in historical publications

MARSTON. Parishes and places in cos. Chester, Hereford, Lincoln, Oxford, Stafford, Warwick, Wilts, Somerset, Derby, Buckingham, Northampton, York, Leicester, Bedford, Gloucester, &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 MARSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARSTON.

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 MARSTON

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