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The COPELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 53,771 565 0.02 199
United States (1880 census) 10,480 570 0.021 210
Change since 1880 +43291 +5 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 1,044 1580 0.006 64
United Kingdom 5,551 1126 0.012 121
Top States for COPELAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 5,371 463 0.026 258
Georgia 4,140 232 0.051 506
Florida 3,730 521 0.023 233
California 2,982 1134 0.009 88
Virginia 2,532 328 0.036 358
Top States for COPELAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,282 303 0.051 513
Georgia 4,140 232 0.051 506
Oklahoma 1,663 244 0.048 482
Tennessee 2,503 355 0.044 440
Arkansas 1,173 282 0.044 439

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

Classification and Origin of COPELAND

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 COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 COPELAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 909 1.69
White (Hispanic) 780 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 339 0.63
Asian/Pacific 183 0.34
White (Caucasian) 36,871 68.57
Black/African American 14,690 27.32

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

Meaning of COPELAND in historical publications

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

Similar names to COPELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COPELAND.

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 COPELAND

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