The GUTHRIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	31,530	1015	0.012	117
United States (1880 census)	6,383	952	0.013	128
Change since 1880	+25147	-63	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	1,579	1031	0.01	97
United Kingdom	3,957	1576	0.009	86

Top States for GUTHRIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,714	964	0.013	130
California	2,060	1610	0.006	61
Florida	2,010	1024	0.013	126
North Carolina	1,567	752	0.019	195
Alabama	1,554	462	0.035	349
Top States for GUTHRIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,554	462	0.035	349
Oklahoma	1,000	438	0.029	290
Alaska	158	439	0.025	252
Arkansas	653	537	0.024	244
North Carolina	1,567	752	0.019	195

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GUTHRIE

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 GUTHRIE 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 GUTHRIE 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 GUTHRIE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	460	1.46
Mixed Race	445	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	394	1.25
Asian/Pacific	139	0.44
White (Caucasian)	28,352	89.92
Black/African American	1,744	5.53

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

Meaning of GUTHRIE in historical publications

Warlike, powerful in war, from guth, Saxon, war. Guthmor, Gaelic, loud-voiced. Guthrie, a town in Scotland. Gutric, Gotric, Gotricus, rich in goodness, rich in God.

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

GUTHRIE. An estate in Forfarshire, Scotland. This might be considered a tolerably satisfactory origin for the name, especially as the family continue to vrvxie themselves 'of that Ilk,' to the present day. Tradition, however, has invented another, which is amusingly absurd ; I give it as I find it in Chambers' Popular Eliymes of Scotland : —

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 GUTHRIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUTHRIE.

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.