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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

'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.

Meaning of RATCLIFFE in historical publications

RATCLIFF. RATCLIFFE. Parishes and )laces in cos. Nottingham, Leicester, and Middlesex.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for RATCLIFFE

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