The RATH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,135	5227	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,400	4071	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+4735	-1156	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	405	3901	0.002	25
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for RATH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	597	4725	0.002	18
New York	472	4015	0.002	25
Florida	359	5414	0.002	22
Illinois	347	3657	0.003	28
Minnesota	315	1849	0.006	64
Top States for RATH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	193	305	0.030	301
South Dakota	100	845	0.013	132
Nebraska	179	1020	0.010	105
Montana	75	1527	0.008	83
Iowa	230	1508	0.008	79

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

Classification and Origin of RATH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RATH 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 RATH 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 RATH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	383	6.24
Mixed Race	85	1.39
White (Hispanic)	79	1.29
Black/African American	42	0.68
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.51
White (Caucasian)	5,515	89.89

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

Similar names to RATH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RATH.

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.