The POTEAT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,300	9102	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	154	23317	0	3
Change since 1880	+3146	+14215	+N/A	+9
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for POTEAT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,552	769	0.019	193
South Carolina	396	1684	0.010	99
Virginia	256	3428	0.004	36
Florida	139	13106	0.001	9
Maryland	125	4817	0.002	24
Top States for POTEAT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,552	769	0.019	193
South Carolina	396	1684	0.010	99
Washington DC	37	1733	0.006	65
Delaware	30	4799	0.004	38
Virginia	256	3428	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of POTEAT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the POTEAT surname.

Ethnic distribution of POTEAT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	33	1
White (Hispanic)	32	0.97
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.36
Asian/Pacific	10	0.3
White (Caucasian)	2,139	64.82
Black/African American	1,074	32.55

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

POTEAT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to POTEAT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POTEAT.

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.