Carithers Surname

225,704th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,800 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Carithers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Carithers Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,7961:201,81519,833
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland51:885,97323,404
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3301:152,17814,081

Carithers Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Carithers Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Carithers is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Carithers? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 225,704th most frequently held family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 4,048,637 people. The surname is primarily found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Carithers are found; 100 percent are found in North America and 100 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

It is most commonly used in The United States, where it is carried by 1,796 people, or 1 in 201,815. In The United States it is most common in: Georgia, where 36 percent are found, Florida, where 9 percent are found and South Carolina, where 7 percent are found. Apart from The United States it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 0 percent are found and Kazakhstan, where 0 percent are found.

Carithers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Carithers has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Carithers last name grew 544 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Carithers Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is chiefly Anglican (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Carithers surname are 22.28% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 69.05% registered to vote for the political party.

Carithers earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 1.1% more than the national average, earning $43,622 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Carithers
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