Compston Surname

350,471st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,041 people bear this surname

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

Compston Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Compston Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5651:641,52051,556
Australia1311:206,07420,044
England1291:431,92329,000
Scotland641:83,6536,073
New Zealand551:82,33311,809
Canada481:767,61660,775
Northern Ireland381:48,5544,148
Wales71:442,07621,198
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Isle of Man11:85,8224,091
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland371:119,7267,101
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1201:203,12816,084
Scotland121:311,9359,798
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States831:605,04440,538

Compston Last Name Facts

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

The last name Compston is more frequently found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Compston? popularity and diffusion

The surname Compston is the 350,471st most commonly occurring surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 7,000,524 people. The last name Compston is primarily found in The Americas, where 47 percent of Compston live; 47 percent live in North America and 47 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most common in The United States, where it is held by 565 people, or 1 in 641,520. In The United States Compston is most prevalent in: Ohio, where 37 percent live, Florida, where 5 percent live and California, where 4 percent live. Barring The United States this last name is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 13 percent live and England, where 12 percent live.

Compston Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Compston has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Compston surname expanded 681 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 108 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it expanded 533 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Compston Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Compston surname is chiefly Anglican (41%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Compston last name are 9% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.77% being registered with the political party.

The amount Compston earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 0.01% more than the national average, earning $43,152 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.57% less than the national average, earning $49,398 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Search for Another Surname

Compston Reference & Research

Cumpston One-name Study - A profile of the Cumpston surname with contact details for a researcher who collects any information pertaining to it.

Cumpston FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data

By signing up to the mailing list you will only receive emails specifically about name reference on Forebears and your information will not be distributed to 3rd parties.

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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Compston
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis