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The RUTLEDGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 26,010 1241 0.01 96
United States (1880 census) 4,868 1275 0.01 97
Change since 1880 +21142 +34 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 586 2773 0.004 36
United Kingdom 671 7142 0.001 15
Top States for RUTLEDGE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,872 927 0.014 138
Georgia 1,600 684 0.020 195
Florida 1,566 1358 0.010 98
California 1,426 2281 0.004 42
Alabama 1,398 539 0.031 314
Top States for RUTLEDGE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,398 539 0.031 314
Mississippi 738 614 0.026 259
Oklahoma 730 648 0.021 212
Tennessee 1,194 763 0.021 210
Georgia 1,600 684 0.020 195

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

Classification and Origin of RUTLEDGE

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 RUTLEDGE 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 RUTLEDGE 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 RUTLEDGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 411 1.58
White (Hispanic) 403 1.55
Native American/Alaskan 164 0.63
Asian/Pacific 86 0.33
White (Caucasian) 20,111 77.32
Black/African American 4,835 18.59

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

Meaning of RUTLEDGE in historical publications

RUTLEDGE. The same as Routledge.

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 RUTLEDGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUTLEDGE.

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 RUTLEDGE

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