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The RAIFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,169 12961 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 704 7319 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1465 -5642 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RAIFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 230 2600 0.005 51
Virginia 215 3956 0.003 30
Florida 210 9099 0.001 13
Georgia 192 4378 0.002 23
North Carolina 176 4921 0.002 22
Top States for RAIFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 230 2600 0.005 51
Mississippi 108 3120 0.004 38
Virginia 215 3956 0.003 30
South Carolina 113 4347 0.003 28
Georgia 192 4378 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 RAIFORD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAIFORD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAIFORD in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAIFORD by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAIFORD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the RAIFORD surname.

Ethnic distribution of RAIFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 32 1.48
White (Hispanic) 20 0.92
Asian/Pacific 10 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.37
Black/African American 1,012 46.66
White (Caucasian) 1,087 50.12

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

RAIFORD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of RAIFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAIFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAIFORD.

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 RAIFORD

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