The READING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,874	10277	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,119	4967	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+1755	-5310	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	904	1811	0.006	55
United Kingdom	2,776	2244	0.006	60

Top States for READING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	360	7378	0.001	11
Pennsylvania	245	6028	0.002	20
Florida	184	9773	0.001	12
Texas	161	10501	0.001	8
New Jersey	129	7371	0.002	15
Top States for READING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	127	2251	0.006	57
Missouri	119	5882	0.002	21
Delaware	16	8384	0.002	20
Oklahoma	70	5841	0.002	20
Pennsylvania	245	6028	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of READING

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 READING 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 READING 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 READING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	123	4.28
White (Hispanic)	60	2.09
Mixed Race	43	1.5
Asian/Pacific	16	0.56
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.31
White (Caucasian)	2,623	91.27

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