The MOTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,482	8688	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	865	6150	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+2617	-2538	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	6	31951	0	0

Top States for MOTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	282	7839	0.001	14
Louisiana	261	2660	0.006	58
Georgia	251	4001	0.003	31
Illinois	225	6880	0.002	18
California	220	13448	0.001	6
Top States for MOTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	175	2471	0.006	62
Louisiana	261	2660	0.006	58
South Carolina	201	3260	0.005	50
Washington DC	26	2703	0.005	45
Alabama	192	3538	0.004	43

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

Classification and Origin of MOTON

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of MOTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	314	9.02
Mixed Race	105	3.02
White (Hispanic)	64	1.84
Asian/Pacific	38	1.09
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.43
Black/African American	2,946	84.61

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

Similar names to MOTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOTON.

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.