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The PICTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 380 51458 0 1
United States (1880 census) 86 34754 0 2
Change since 1880 +294 -16704 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 334 4715 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,865 3136 0.004 41
Top States for PICTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 51 23682 0.000 4
California 37 51689 0.000 1
Texas 24 41987 0.000 1
Florida 23 55935 0.000 1
Iowa 22 17447 0.001 8
Top States for PICTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 18 11683 0.001 9
Iowa 22 17447 0.001 8
Illinois 51 23682 0.000 4
Missouri 20 26162 0.000 4
Vermont 2 32977 0.000 3

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of PICTON

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 PICTON 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 PICTON 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 PICTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 356 93.68
Mixed Race 11 2.89
Black/African American 9 2.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PICTON in historical publications

PICTON. PICKTOX. Townships in cos. Chester and York.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PICTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICTON.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PICTON

The following words are slight variants of PICTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.