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The RAO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,423 3872 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) -1 112678 0 0
Change since 1880 +8424 +108806 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 440 3601 0.003 27
United Kingdom 835 6068 0.002 18
Top States for RAO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,297 1994 0.004 38
New York 920 1597 0.005 48
Texas 701 2638 0.003 34
New Jersey 689 1021 0.008 82
Illinois 544 1911 0.004 44
Top States for RAO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 105 1181 0.010 100
New Jersey 689 1021 0.008 82
Washington DC 42 1190 0.007 73
Massachusetts 383 1899 0.006 60
Maryland 267 1860 0.005 50

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

Classification and Origin of RAO

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAO 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.

Ethnic distribution of RAO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 279 3.31
White (Hispanic) 65 0.77
Black/African American 43 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.18
Asian/Pacific 6,083 72.22
White (Caucasian) 1,938 23.01

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

Meaning of RAO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RAO.

Similar names to RAO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAO.

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 RAO

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