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The ORCHARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,241 12657 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 585 8509 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1656 -4148 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 1,325 1241 0.008 81
United Kingdom 4,088 1535 0.009 89
Top States for ORCHARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 214 12041 0.001 6
Michigan 145 8794 0.001 15
Washington 133 5644 0.002 23
Texas 119 13705 0.001 6
Florida 112 15704 0.001 7
Top States for ORCHARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 111 1658 0.009 86
Wyoming 34 1888 0.007 69
Utah 92 3116 0.004 41
Oregon 99 4520 0.003 29
North Dakota 15 7584 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of ORCHARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 51 2.28
Mixed Race 29 1.29
Black/African American 13 0.58
Asian/Pacific 10 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.36
White (Caucasian) 2,130 95.05

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

Meaning of ORCHARD in historical publications

(origin: Local) An inclosure of fruit-trees. Orcheard, Gaelic, a goldsmith.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ORCHARD. Originally meant wyrt-rjard (A-Sax.), an enclosure for the growth of wyrts or herbs, rather than of apple-trees, as at present. The original bearers of this name must therefore have been gardeners. 2 K

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 ORCHARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORCHARD.

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 ORCHARD

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