The OTTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,238	20041	0	5
United States (1880 census)	297	14372	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+941	-5669	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	136	10780	0.001	8
United Kingdom	1,025	5170	0.002	22

Top States for OTTER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	116	11012	0.001	12
Washington	89	8247	0.002	15
California	87	26335	0.000	3
Kansas	78	4352	0.003	29
Indiana	62	11289	0.001	10
Top States for OTTER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	78	4352	0.003	29
Idaho	34	5524	0.003	26
Washington	89	8247	0.002	15
South Dakota	11	11881	0.001	15
Alaska	9	11485	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of OTTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	21	1.7
White (Hispanic)	19	1.53
Mixed Race	13	1.05
White (Caucasian)	1,170	94.51
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to OTTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OTTER.

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.