The MATHEWS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	50,608	609	0.019	188
United States (1880 census)	29,435	169	0.059	589
Change since 1880	+21173	-440	-0.04	-401
Other Countries
Australia	2,266	707	0.014	139
United Kingdom	3,421	1826	0.007	74

Top States for MATHEWS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,367	587	0.021	209
California	4,116	794	0.012	122
Florida	3,455	571	0.022	216
Ohio	2,837	428	0.025	250
Michigan	2,208	441	0.022	222
Top States for MATHEWS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,730	419	0.039	389
Louisiana	1,513	420	0.034	339
Oklahoma	948	481	0.027	275
Idaho	351	463	0.027	271
Oregon	923	399	0.027	270

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

Classification and Origin of MATHEWS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	911	1.8
Native American/Alaskan	314	0.62
White (Caucasian)	38,918	76.9
Black/African American	7,981	15.77
Asian/Pacific	1,422	2.81
White (Hispanic)	1,063	2.1

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

Similar names to MATHEWS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHEWS.

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.