The FORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	178,397	124	0.066	661
United States (1880 census)	45,104	95	0.09	902
Change since 1880	+133293	-29	-0.024	-241
Other Countries
Australia	9,921	116	0.061	607
United Kingdom	38,429	117	0.084	837

Top States for FORD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	14,900	148	0.071	715
California	12,944	222	0.038	382
Florida	10,547	144	0.066	660
New York	7,137	188	0.038	376
Ohio	6,935	140	0.061	611
Top States for FORD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	3,983	86	0.140	1,400
South Carolina	4,959	97	0.124	1,236
Arkansas	3,274	75	0.122	1,225
Washington DC	700	59	0.122	1,224
Tennessee	6,649	99	0.117	1,169

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FORD

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 FORD 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 FORD 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 FORD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	660	0.37
White (Caucasian)	114,674	64.28
Black/African American	56,017	31.4
Mixed Race	3,283	1.84
White (Hispanic)	2,694	1.51
Native American/Alaskan	1,088	0.61

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

Similar names to FORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORD.

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.