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The PACKARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,409 3470 0.003 35
United States (1880 census) 4,525 1374 0.009 91
Change since 1880 +4884 -2096 -0.006 -56
Other Countries
Australia 65 20688 0 4
United Kingdom 315 12346 0.001 7
Top States for PACKARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 864 3465 0.003 26
Massachusetts 687 1294 0.011 108
Florida 519 3906 0.003 32
Michigan 471 2412 0.005 47
Texas 440 4761 0.002 21
Top States for PACKARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 392 639 0.031 307
Vermont 88 1221 0.014 145
New Hampshire 178 1078 0.014 144
Utah 251 1197 0.011 112
Massachusetts 687 1294 0.011 108

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

Classification and Origin of PACKARD

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 PACKARD 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 PACKARD 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 PACKARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 262 2.78
White (Hispanic) 126 1.34
Mixed Race 117 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 97 1.03
Asian/Pacific 44 0.47
White (Caucasian) 8,763 93.13

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

Meaning of PACKARD in historical publications

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

Similar names to PACKARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PACKARD.

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 PACKARD

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