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The BACKMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,984 9978 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 859 6181 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +2125 -3797 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 196 7713 0.001 12
United Kingdom 85 24647 0 2
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.

Classification and Origin of BACKMAN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 180 6.03
White (Hispanic) 48 1.61
Mixed Race 44 1.47
Asian/Pacific 22 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.57
White (Caucasian) 2,673 89.58

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

Meaning of BACKMAN in historical publications

BACKMAN. One who had the care of a back or ferry. See Back, Baxman, ILK.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


German, Bach, a brook, and man. Boekman bookman. Back, in some places, a ferry; Backman, a ferryman.

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


Similar names to BACKMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACKMAN.

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 BACKMAN

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