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The MATHEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,311 3509 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 2,036 2945 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +7275 -564 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 345 4584 0.002 21
United Kingdom 598 7811 0.001 13
Top States for MATHEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,576 1104 0.008 83
Texas 1,571 1522 0.008 75
Illinois 806 1518 0.006 65
Pennsylvania 738 1942 0.006 60
California 653 4329 0.002 19
Top States for MATHEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,576 1104 0.008 83
Texas 1,571 1522 0.008 75
New Jersey 620 1395 0.007 74
Illinois 806 1518 0.006 65
Alaska 38 2196 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of MATHEW

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MATHEW 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.

Ethnic distribution of MATHEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 464 4.98
Mixed Race 455 4.89
White (Hispanic) 173 1.86
Native American/Alaskan 83 0.89
Asian/Pacific 6,317 67.84
White (Caucasian) 1,819 19.54

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

Meaning of MATHEW in historical publications

MATHEW. MATHEWS, See J\Iat

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MATHEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHEW.

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 MATHEW

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