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The ARLINGTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 632 33993 0 2
United States (1880 census) 232 17269 0 5
Change since 1880 +400 -16724 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 11 79176 0 1
United Kingdom 69 25258 0 1
Top States for ARLINGTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 61 20003 0.000 3
New Jersey 60 14042 0.001 7
California 59 31925 0.000 2
New York 57 27259 0.000 3
Florida 49 27610 0.000 3
Top States for ARLINGTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 7 12064 0.001 11
New Jersey 60 14042 0.001 7
New Hampshire 8 15135 0.001 6
Delaware 4 23226 0.001 5
Massachusetts 29 21564 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of ARLINGTON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ARLINGTON surname.

Ethnic distribution of ARLINGTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 536 84.81
Black/African American 62 9.81
Mixed Race 14 2.22
White (Hispanic) 12 1.9
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

ARLINGTON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ARLINGTON in historical publications


Local. From a village in Sussex, England.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to ARLINGTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARLINGTON.

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 ARLINGTON

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