The METTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,634	8366	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	780	6700	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2854	-1666	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	35772	0	0

Top States for METTS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	763	884	0.019	190
Georgia	341	2883	0.004	42
Florida	340	6044	0.002	21
North Carolina	312	3412	0.004	39
Pennsylvania	219	7172	0.002	18
Top States for METTS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	763	884	0.019	190
Mississippi	131	2772	0.005	46
Georgia	341	2883	0.004	42
Kentucky	163	3185	0.004	40
North Carolina	312	3412	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of METTS

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	510	14.03
White (Hispanic)	44	1.21
Mixed Race	38	1.05
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.39
Asian/Pacific	9	0.25
White (Caucasian)	3,019	83.08

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

Similar names to METTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as METTS.

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.