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The BUFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,751 3722 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,604 2344 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +6147 -1378 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32447 0 0
Top States for BUFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 796 3142 0.004 38
Tennessee 732 1323 0.013 129
Mississippi 609 802 0.021 214
Michigan 571 2165 0.006 57
Illinois 556 2512 0.004 45
Top States for BUFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 609 802 0.021 214
Tennessee 732 1323 0.013 129
Alabama 555 1423 0.012 125
Arkansas 281 1375 0.011 105
Missouri 477 1651 0.009 85

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

Classification and Origin of BUFORD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BUFORD surname.

Ethnic distribution of BUFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 195 2.23
White (Hispanic) 140 1.6
Native American/Alaskan 43 0.49
Asian/Pacific 20 0.23
Black/African American 4,778 54.6
White (Caucasian) 3,575 40.85

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

BUFORD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BUFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to BUFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUFORD.

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 BUFORD

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