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The RATTRAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,148 21273 0 4
United States (1880 census) 69 40447 0 1
Change since 1880 +1079 +19174 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 506 3181 0.003 31
United Kingdom 1,637 3481 0.004 36
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.

Classification and Origin of RATTRAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 723 62.98
Black/African American 356 31.01
Mixed Race 32 2.79
White (Hispanic) 19 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.87
Asian/Pacific 8 0.7

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

Meaning of RATTRAY in historical publications

RATTRAY. Derived from a barony of the same name in Perthshire. The first of the name on record is Alan de RatheriiT, who lived in the reigns of "William the Lion and Alexander II. B.L.G. The family still reside at Craighall, in the parish of Eattray.

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 RATTRAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RATTRAY.

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 RATTRAY

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