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The SLATE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,687 5597 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 1,177 4760 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +4510 -837 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 22 47694 0 1
United Kingdom 219 15595 0 5
Top States for SLATE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 662 1815 0.008 82
Virginia 494 1915 0.007 70
New York 435 4547 0.002 23
Texas 367 5613 0.002 18
California 343 8039 0.001 10
Top States for SLATE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 662 1815 0.008 82
West Virginia 131 1946 0.007 72
Virginia 494 1915 0.007 70
Tennessee 295 2766 0.005 52
Oklahoma 160 3011 0.005 46

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

Classification and Origin of SLATE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 288 5.06
White (Hispanic) 161 2.83
Mixed Race 104 1.83
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.86
Asian/Pacific 33 0.58
White (Caucasian) 5,052 88.83

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

Meaning of SLATE in historical publications

SLATE. An Edinburgh surname. Perhaps from Sleat, a parish of Invernessshire. 2. iSlait or slafr slovenly and dirty. Jamieson.

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 SLATE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SLATE.

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 SLATE

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