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The BREED surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,399 11948 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 1,440 3971 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +959 -7977 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 257 5989 0.002 16
United Kingdom 651 7318 0.001 14
Top States for BREED by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 263 7140 0.001 13
California 222 11409 0.001 7
New York 206 9214 0.001 11
Alabama 120 4276 0.003 27
Massachusetts 118 6825 0.002 19
Top States for BREED by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 43 3984 0.003 35
Vermont 18 4801 0.003 30
Maine 35 4846 0.003 27
Alabama 120 4276 0.003 27
Colorado 85 6391 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of BREED

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 234 9.75
White (Hispanic) 54 2.25
Mixed Race 31 1.29
Asian/Pacific 16 0.67
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.58
White (Caucasian) 2,050 85.45

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

Meaning of BREED in historical publications

(origin: Dutch.) From Breed, broad, large. Brede, local, a town in Sussex, England, and in the Danish, signifies brim, margin; sea-side, shore, river-side.

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


Similar names to BREED

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BREED.

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 BREED

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