The MASTERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,106	1412	0.009	86
United States (1880 census)	4,988	1232	0.01	100
Change since 1880	+18118	-180	-0.001	-14
Other Countries
Australia	2,490	641	0.015	152
United Kingdom	7,347	841	0.016	160

Top States for MASTERS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,779	1183	0.011	111
Texas	1,674	1515	0.008	80
Ohio	1,615	826	0.014	142
California	1,602	2040	0.005	47
Michigan	1,057	1014	0.011	106
Top States for MASTERS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	381	744	0.021	211
Missouri	946	711	0.017	169
South Carolina	661	1011	0.016	165
Kentucky	663	911	0.016	164
Ohio	1,615	826	0.014	142

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

Classification and Origin of MASTERS

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 MASTERS 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 MASTERS 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 MASTERS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	668	2.89
White (Hispanic)	390	1.69
Mixed Race	358	1.55
Native American/Alaskan	178	0.77
Asian/Pacific	148	0.64
White (Caucasian)	21,364	92.46

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

Similar names to MASTERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MASTERS.

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.