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The DUNFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,757 8128 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 468 10195 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +3289 +2067 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 265 5826 0.002 16
United Kingdom 2,678 2318 0.006 58
Top States for DUNFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 839 1161 0.012 119
Florida 222 8983 0.001 14
Utah 202 1592 0.009 90
Ohio 194 7395 0.002 17
California 185 14206 0.001 5
Top States for DUNFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 839 1161 0.012 119
Utah 202 1592 0.009 90
West Virginia 140 1912 0.008 77
Delaware 27 5311 0.003 34
North Dakota 22 5445 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of DUNFORD

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 DUNFORD 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 DUNFORD 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 DUNFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 168 4.47
White (Hispanic) 55 1.46
Mixed Race 53 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.53
Asian/Pacific 16 0.43
White (Caucasian) 3,445 91.7

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

Meaning of DUNFORD in historical publications

DUNFORD. A known corruption of Durnford.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DUNFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNFORD.

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 DUNFORD

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