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The FLOYD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 64,141 469 0.024 238
United States (1880 census) 12,158 491 0.024 243
Change since 1880 +51983 +22 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 922 1779 0.006 56
United Kingdom 3,626 1727 0.008 79
Top States for FLOYD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 5,493 169 0.067 671
South Carolina 5,084 95 0.127 1,267
Texas 5,029 525 0.024 241
Florida 4,770 391 0.030 298
North Carolina 4,106 262 0.051 510
Top States for FLOYD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 5,084 95 0.127 1,267
Mississippi 2,019 195 0.071 710
Georgia 5,493 169 0.067 671
Alabama 2,957 230 0.066 665
North Carolina 4,106 262 0.051 510

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

Classification and Origin of FLOYD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 821 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 366 0.57
Asian/Pacific 199 0.31
White (Caucasian) 43,577 67.94
Black/African American 18,152 28.3
Mixed Race 1,020 1.59

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

Meaning of FLOYD in historical publications

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

Similar names to FLOYD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLOYD.

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 FLOYD

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