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The OXFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,560 6809 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 889 6027 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +3671 -782 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 302 5172 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,005 5246 0.002 22
Top States for OXFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 518 4228 0.002 25
California 470 6046 0.001 14
Georgia 388 2520 0.005 47
Florida 258 7560 0.002 16
Oklahoma 244 1965 0.007 71
Top States for OXFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 210 1730 0.008 79
Oklahoma 244 1965 0.007 71
Georgia 388 2520 0.005 47
Alaska 26 3658 0.004 41
Washington 235 3202 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of OXFORD

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 OXFORD 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 OXFORD 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 OXFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 221 4.85
Mixed Race 82 1.8
White (Hispanic) 74 1.62
Native American/Alaskan 57 1.25
Asian/Pacific 21 0.46
White (Caucasian) 4,105 90.02

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

Meaning of OXFORD in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Oxford, in England, on the Isis, the seat of the celebrated university founded in 806; from Ox, Anglo-Saxon, water, corrupted by the Angles or Danes from the Gaelic uisge or isk, and ford, a pass or way--the ford across the Isis. Bailey derives it from Oxen-ford, "the ford of the oxen," like the Greek Bosphorus, or from the river Ouse, and ford. The name of the river Ouse is derived from uisge, water.

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


OXFORD. The city.

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 OXFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OXFORD.

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 OXFORD

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