The MOULTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,580	2840	0.004	43
United States (1880 census)	5,135	1190	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+6445	-1650	-0.006	-60
Other Countries
Australia	480	3331	0.003	29
United Kingdom	2,041	2911	0.004	44

Top States for MOULTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	970	3067	0.003	29
Maine	916	212	0.072	718
Florida	886	2205	0.006	55
Massachusetts	858	997	0.014	135
New York	673	2705	0.004	35
Top States for MOULTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	916	212	0.072	718
Vermont	352	171	0.058	578
New Hampshire	536	268	0.043	434
Utah	401	697	0.018	180
Idaho	178	903	0.014	138

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

Classification and Origin of MOULTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	547	4.72
White (Hispanic)	167	1.44
Mixed Race	155	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	63	0.54
Asian/Pacific	47	0.41
White (Caucasian)	10,601	91.55

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

Similar names to MOULTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOULTON.

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.