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The DEFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,275 12497 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 502 9645 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1773 -2852 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 1 288134 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 238 3352 0.004 39
Texas 195 9388 0.001 9
Washington 163 4635 0.003 28
Michigan 143 8966 0.001 14
Tennessee 140 4844 0.002 25
Top States for DEFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 238 3352 0.004 39
Idaho 42 4553 0.003 32
Washington 163 4635 0.003 28
Tennessee 140 4844 0.002 25
Delaware 19 7158 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of DEFORD

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

Ethnic distribution of DEFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 37 1.63
Mixed Race 34 1.49
Black/African American 33 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 25 1.1
Asian/Pacific 13 0.57
White (Caucasian) 2,133 93.76

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

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

Meaning of DEFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFORD.

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 DEFORD

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