The LIVINGSTONE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,427	11823	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	1,235	4569	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+1192	-7254	-0.001	-16
Other Countries
Australia	1,167	1413	0.007	71
United Kingdom	5,486	1143	0.012	119

Top States for LIVINGSTONE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	309	8106	0.001	9
Massachusetts	267	3018	0.004	42
New York	244	7384	0.001	13
Florida	217	8158	0.001	14
Pennsylvania	126	11021	0.001	10
Top States for LIVINGSTONE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	267	3018	0.004	42
Maine	31	5030	0.002	24
Vermont	13	6251	0.002	21
Rhode Island	22	6651	0.002	21
Washington	101	6741	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of LIVINGSTONE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LIVINGSTONE 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 LIVINGSTONE 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 LIVINGSTONE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	327	13.47
White (Hispanic)	44	1.81
Mixed Race	30	1.24
White (Caucasian)	2,002	82.49
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 LIVINGSTONE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LIVINGSTONE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIVINGSTONE.

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.