The MATHERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	459	44192	0	2
United States (1880 census)	458	10370	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1	-33822	+N/A	-7
Other Countries
Australia	81	17134	0	5
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MATHERSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	122	4201	0.003	27
Texas	50	25930	0.000	2
Florida	38	39101	0.000	2
Massachusetts	29	25122	0.000	5
North Carolina	27	17267	0.000	3
Top States for MATHERSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	122	4201	0.003	27
Massachusetts	29	25122	0.000	5
Colorado	15	32572	0.000	3
Louisiana	15	21341	0.000	3
North Carolina	27	17267	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of MATHERSON

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

Ethnic distribution of MATHERSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	300	65.36
Black/African American	131	28.54
Mixed Race	17	3.7
White (Hispanic)	7	1.53
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to MATHERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHERSON.

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.