The OVERTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,094	1822	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	4,715	1328	0.009	94
Change since 1880	+13379	-494	-0.002	-27
Other Countries
Australia	648	2504	0.004	40
United Kingdom	3,877	1605	0.008	84

Top States for OVERTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,464	628	0.026	257
Texas	1,439	1776	0.007	69
North Carolina	1,416	879	0.018	176
California	1,106	2984	0.003	33
Alabama	977	809	0.022	220
Top States for OVERTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,464	628	0.026	257
Alabama	977	809	0.022	220
North Carolina	1,416	879	0.018	176
Iowa	508	625	0.017	174
Arkansas	430	868	0.016	161

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

Classification and Origin of OVERTON

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 OVERTON 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 OVERTON 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 OVERTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	335	1.85
White (Hispanic)	279	1.54
Native American/Alaskan	96	0.53
Asian/Pacific	54	0.3
White (Caucasian)	12,517	69.18
Black/African American	4,815	26.61

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

Similar names to OVERTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERTON.

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.