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The ASHDOWN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 780 28730 0 3
United States (1880 census) 236 17087 0 5
Change since 1880 +544 -11643 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 370 4288 0.002 23
United Kingdom 2,047 2904 0.004 45
Top States for ASHDOWN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 106 2520 0.005 47
California 101 21267 0.000 3
New York 94 18187 0.000 5
Ohio 69 17084 0.001 6
Florida 64 23166 0.000 4
Top States for ASHDOWN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 106 2520 0.005 47
Idaho 28 6022 0.002 22
Wyoming 6 9582 0.001 12
South Dakota 6 14948 0.001 8
Nevada 15 13506 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ASHDOWN

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 ASHDOWN 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 ASHDOWN 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 ASHDOWN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 746 95.64
Mixed Race 14 1.79
White (Hispanic) 9 1.15
Asian/Pacific 5 0.64
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ASHDOWN in historical publications

ASHDOWN. A great district, formerly

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 ASHDOWN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASHDOWN.

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 ASHDOWN

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