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The MATHERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 544 38263 0 2
United States (1880 census) 55 46918 0 1
Change since 1880 +489 +8655 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 37322 0 0
Top States for MATHERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 82 943 0.013 128
Minnesota 45 16511 0.001 9
California 40 49029 0.000 1
Iowa 38 11222 0.001 13
New Jersey 35 26391 0.000 4
Top States for MATHERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 82 943 0.013 128
Montana 20 6965 0.002 22
Wyoming 10 6996 0.002 20
South Dakota 14 8808 0.002 19
Iowa 38 11222 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of MATHERN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MATHERN surname.

Ethnic distribution of MATHERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 526 96.69
White (Hispanic) 9 1.65
Asian/Pacific 5 0.92
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

MATHERN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MATHERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MATHERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHERN.

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 MATHERN

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