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The BAIRD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 34,233 935 0.013 127
United States (1880 census) 9,891 610 0.02 198
Change since 1880 +24342 -325 -0.007 -71
Other Countries
Australia 2,443 659 0.015 149
United Kingdom 8,542 714 0.019 186
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 BAIRD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 513 1.5
Mixed Race 421 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 209 0.61
Asian/Pacific 192 0.56
White (Caucasian) 31,871 93.1
Black/African American 1,024 2.99

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

Meaning of BAIRD in historical publications

BAIRD. Said to be the Scottish form of bard, or poet. Jamieson. This, however, ia doubtful as to the surname, which in North Britain is widely sjiread. Its principal modes of spelling have been Bard, Byrd, Bayard. The last supports the tradition of a derivation from the south of France, the country of the Clievalier Bayard, the knight sum K'ur, sans reproclie,

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 BAIRD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAIRD.

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 BAIRD

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