The SKELTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,542	2291	0.005	54
United States (1880 census)	2,737	2216	0.005	55
Change since 1880	+11805	-75	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	972	1698	0.006	59
United Kingdom	6,451	982	0.014	140

Top States for SKELTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,288	1811	0.006	62
Alabama	1,081	682	0.024	243
Tennessee	995	838	0.017	175
California	919	3232	0.003	27
Georgia	892	1154	0.011	109
Top States for SKELTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	708	598	0.025	249
Alabama	1,081	682	0.024	243
Tennessee	995	838	0.017	175
Arkansas	361	956	0.014	135
South Carolina	487	1326	0.012	121

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

Classification and Origin of SKELTON

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 SKELTON 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 SKELTON 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 SKELTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	830	5.71
Mixed Race	204	1.4
White (Hispanic)	196	1.35
Asian/Pacific	79	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	74	0.51
White (Caucasian)	13,159	90.49

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

Similar names to SKELTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SKELTON.

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.