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The BELT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,422 3874 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 2,089 2861 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +6333 -1013 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 75 18224 0 5
United Kingdom 406 10315 0.001 9
Top States for BELT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 620 3790 0.003 30
Kentucky 573 1075 0.014 142
California 559 5321 0.002 17
Ohio 557 2625 0.005 49
Maryland 537 1183 0.010 101
Top States for BELT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 573 1075 0.014 142
West Virginia 217 1281 0.012 120
Maryland 537 1183 0.010 101
Arkansas 268 1392 0.010 100
Kansas 247 1286 0.009 92

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

Classification and Origin of BELT

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 BELT 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 BELT 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 BELT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 140 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 131 1.56
White (Hispanic) 120 1.42
Asian/Pacific 28 0.33
White (Caucasian) 6,945 82.46
Black/African American 1,058 12.56

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

Meaning of BELT in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BELT.

Similar names to BELT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BELT.

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 BELT

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