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The BARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,470 4981 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,770 3332 0.004 35
Change since 1880 +4700 -1649 -0.002 -11
Other Countries
Australia 61 21600 0 4
United Kingdom 255 14134 0.001 6
Top States for BARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 818 1979 0.007 67
Florida 460 4759 0.003 29
New York 456 4587 0.002 24
California 421 7062 0.001 12
Michigan 349 3710 0.004 35
Top States for BARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 344 812 0.027 270
Vermont 55 2042 0.009 90
Connecticut 237 2024 0.007 70
Pennsylvania 818 1979 0.007 67
Kentucky 214 2613 0.005 53

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.

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

Classification and Origin of BARD

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BARD 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.

Ethnic distribution of BARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 405 6.26
White (Hispanic) 320 4.95
Mixed Race 123 1.9
Asian/Pacific 67 1.04
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.59
White (Caucasian) 5,517 85.27

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

Meaning of BARD in historical publications

(origin: Celtic. Local) From bawr, a top or summit, the highest; and eidde or oidde, instructor--the chief preceptor, instructor, or poet.

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


Similar names to BARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARD.

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 BARD

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