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The HELTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,624 1310 0.009 91
United States (1880 census) 2,576 2365 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +22048 +1055 +0.004 +39
Other Countries
Australia 48 26370 0 3
United Kingdom 12 30254 0 0
Top States for HELTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 3,170 254 0.056 557
Kentucky 2,531 213 0.063 626
Ohio 1,922 685 0.017 169
Texas 1,618 1591 0.008 78
Georgia 1,614 690 0.020 197
Top States for HELTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 2,531 213 0.063 626
Tennessee 3,170 254 0.056 557
Alabama 1,127 702 0.025 253
Indiana 1,210 584 0.020 199
Georgia 1,614 690 0.020 197

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

Classification and Origin of HELTON

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 HELTON 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 HELTON 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 HELTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 859 3.49
Mixed Race 340 1.38
White (Hispanic) 332 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 170 0.69
Asian/Pacific 86 0.35
White (Caucasian) 22,834 92.73

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

Meaning of HELTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HELTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HELTON.

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 HELTON

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