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The BIGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,473 5786 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,395 4082 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +4078 -1704 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 88 15962 0.001 5
United Kingdom 293 12914 0.001 6
Top States for BIGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 836 2784 0.004 40
California 381 7268 0.001 11
Illinois 313 4208 0.003 25
Alabama 294 2274 0.007 66
Ohio 281 5012 0.002 25
Top States for BIGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 294 2274 0.007 66
South Carolina 245 2472 0.006 61
Mississippi 151 2439 0.005 53
Kansas 110 3036 0.004 41
Texas 836 2784 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of BIGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 655 11.97
Mixed Race 72 1.32
White (Hispanic) 49 0.9
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.35
Asian/Pacific 15 0.27
White (Caucasian) 4,663 85.2

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

Meaning of BIGHAM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BIGHAM.

Similar names to BIGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIGHAM.

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 BIGHAM

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