The MATHESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,302	4468	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	805	6509	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+6497	+2041	+0.001	+11
Other Countries
Australia	2,373	680	0.015	145
United Kingdom	3,185	1963	0.007	69

Top States for MATHESON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	816	3535	0.002	24
North Carolina	533	2078	0.007	66
Florida	411	4721	0.003	26
Washington	402	1752	0.007	68
Utah	328	884	0.015	147
Top States for MATHESON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	328	884	0.015	147
Maine	100	2161	0.008	78
Vermont	47	2146	0.008	77
New Hampshire	92	2029	0.007	74
Wyoming	34	1735	0.007	69

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

Classification and Origin of MATHESON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MATHESON 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 MATHESON 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 MATHESON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	175	2.4
White (Hispanic)	115	1.57
Mixed Race	96	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	67	0.92
Asian/Pacific	45	0.62
White (Caucasian)	6,804	93.18

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

Similar names to MATHESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHESON.

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.