The RATCLIFFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,148	7411	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	707	7298	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+3441	-113	+0.001	+1
Other Countries
Australia	1,199	1380	0.007	73
United Kingdom	10,544	563	0.023	230

Top States for RATCLIFFE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	597	1499	0.008	84
California	317	8143	0.001	9
Florida	252	7329	0.002	16
Texas	235	7628	0.001	11
North Carolina	215	4147	0.003	27
Top States for RATCLIFFE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	597	1499	0.008	84
West Virginia	98	2302	0.005	54
Rhode Island	43	3548	0.004	41
Utah	74	3528	0.003	33
New Hampshire	35	4554	0.003	28

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

Classification and Origin of RATCLIFFE

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 RATCLIFFE 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 RATCLIFFE 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 RATCLIFFE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	341	8.22
White (Hispanic)	92	2.22
Mixed Race	54	1.3
Asian/Pacific	38	0.92
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.29
White (Caucasian)	3,611	87.05

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

Similar names to RATCLIFFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RATCLIFFE.

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.