The NOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,134	13137	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,173	4771	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+961	-8366	-0.001	-15
Other Countries
Australia	944	1749	0.006	58
United Kingdom	1,882	3114	0.004	41

Top States for NOTT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	271	9929	0.001	8
Ohio	209	6673	0.002	18
Florida	177	10639	0.001	11
Washington	127	5940	0.002	22
Michigan	96	13424	0.001	10
Top States for NOTT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	17	6089	0.003	27
Wyoming	11	7055	0.002	22
Washington	127	5940	0.002	22
Vermont	13	6804	0.002	21
Nebraska	34	8217	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of NOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	38	1.78
White (Hispanic)	28	1.31
Black/African American	25	1.17
Native American/Alaskan	25	1.17
Asian/Pacific	22	1.03
White (Caucasian)	1,996	93.53

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

Meaning of NOTT in historical publications

Hnott, Saxon, smooth, round, a nut. Notted, an old word for shorn, polled. The name may have come from wearing the hair short and smooth. "A nott hed had he, with a brown visage."--Chaucer. The following, it is said, was penned by the first wife of the Rev. Dr. Nott, on his asking her hand in marriage: "Why urge, dear sir, a bashful maid, To change her single lot, When well you know, I've often said In truth, I love you, Nott. For all your pain I do, Nott, care, And trust me on my life, Though you had thousands,--I declare, I would, Nott, be your wife."

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

NOTT. See Knott and Nutt,

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 NOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOTT.

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.