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The RAWLINGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,472 3451 0.004 35
United States (1880 census) 2,277 2665 0.005 46
Change since 1880 +7195 -786 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 1,216 1361 0.007 74
United Kingdom 6,669 949 0.015 145
Top States for RAWLINGS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 721 853 0.014 136
Virginia 666 1469 0.009 94
California 657 4564 0.002 19
Texas 632 3697 0.003 30
Kentucky 501 1204 0.012 124
Top States for RAWLINGS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 361 869 0.016 162
Maryland 721 853 0.014 136
Kentucky 501 1204 0.012 124
Idaho 142 1269 0.011 110
Washington DC 55 1163 0.010 96

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

Classification and Origin of RAWLINGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 132 1.39
White (Hispanic) 101 1.07
Asian/Pacific 41 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.25
White (Caucasian) 7,446 78.61
Black/African American 1,728 18.24

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

Meaning of RAWLINGS in historical publications

From Raoul, French for Ralph, and the patronymic termination ings;--Ralph's son.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


RAWLINGS. RAAVLINS. See

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 RAWLINGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAWLINGS.

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 RAWLINGS

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