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The MONTEITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,990 9957 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 544 9024 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +2446 -933 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 239 6437 0.001 15
United Kingdom 1,440 3903 0.003 31
Top States for MONTEITH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 337 3061 0.004 42
California 206 11972 0.001 6
Florida 200 9094 0.001 13
Texas 148 11170 0.001 7
Ohio 132 9792 0.001 12
Top States for MONTEITH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 30 3212 0.005 49
Maine 61 3199 0.005 48
North Carolina 337 3061 0.004 42
Idaho 45 4000 0.003 35
South Carolina 126 3887 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of MONTEITH

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 MONTEITH 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 MONTEITH 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 MONTEITH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 176 5.89
White (Hispanic) 67 2.24
Mixed Race 52 1.74
Asian/Pacific 27 0.9
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.37
White (Caucasian) 2,657 88.86

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

Meaning of MONTEITH in historical publications

MONTEITH. A parish in Perthshire.

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 MONTEITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONTEITH.

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 MONTEITH

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