The RATCLIFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,237	3207	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	2,285	2653	0.005	46
Change since 1880	+7952	-554	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	323	4882	0.002	20
United Kingdom	1,314	4190	0.003	29

Top States for RATCLIFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,388	1837	0.007	67
Louisiana	873	781	0.020	195
Mississippi	745	623	0.026	262
Ohio	669	2184	0.006	59
California	552	5393	0.002	16
Top States for RATCLIFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	745	623	0.026	262
Louisiana	873	781	0.020	195
West Virginia	211	1313	0.012	117
Indiana	471	1709	0.008	77
Virginia	547	1788	0.008	77

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

Classification and Origin of RATCLIFF

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 RATCLIFF 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 RATCLIFF 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 RATCLIFF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	188	1.84
Mixed Race	133	1.3
Native American/Alaskan	47	0.46
Asian/Pacific	30	0.29
White (Caucasian)	7,825	76.44
Black/African American	2,014	19.67

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

Similar names to RATCLIFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RATCLIFF.

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.