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The TAIT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,037 5310 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,317 4321 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +4720 -989 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 2,278 701 0.014 139
United Kingdom 10,398 574 0.023 226
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.

Classification and Origin of TAIT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 533 8.83
White (Hispanic) 127 2.1
Mixed Race 83 1.37
Asian/Pacific 44 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.33
White (Caucasian) 5,230 86.63

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

Meaning of TAIT in historical publications

TAIT. Teit was a personal name in Norway in the XI. cent. See the Heimskringla. The name is sometimes varied to Taitt, Taite and Tate,

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 TAIT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TAIT.

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 TAIT

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