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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

'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?

Meaning of MATHERSON in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MATHERSON

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