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The RED surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,910 14370 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 1,238 4555 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +672 -9815 -0.001 -18
Other Countries
Australia 3 201742 0 0
United Kingdom 31 27390 0 1
Top States for RED by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 239 9160 0.001 7
Texas 236 6723 0.001 11
Mississippi 114 2599 0.004 40
Louisiana 100 4433 0.002 22
Arkansas 93 3035 0.003 35
Top States for RED by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 88 790 0.012 117
North Dakota 36 2413 0.006 56
Montana 44 2333 0.005 49
Mississippi 114 2599 0.004 40
Arkansas 93 3035 0.003 35

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

Classification and Origin of RED

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 379 19.84
Asian/Pacific 155 8.12
White (Hispanic) 99 5.18
Mixed Race 46 2.41
Native American/Alaskan 25 1.31
White (Caucasian) 1,206 63.14

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

Meaning of RED in historical publications

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

Similar names to RED

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RED.

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 RED

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