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The RICKARDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,546 16960 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 337 13075 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1209 -3885 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 480 3330 0.003 29
United Kingdom 1,329 4153 0.003 29
Top States for RICKARDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 233 6006 0.002 19
Delaware 156 783 0.020 199
Florida 148 11307 0.001 9
California 124 17690 0.000 4
New Jersey 94 9689 0.001 11
Top States for RICKARDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 156 783 0.020 199
Maine 40 4124 0.003 31
Alaska 13 7360 0.002 21
Pennsylvania 233 6006 0.002 19
New Jersey 94 9689 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of RICKARDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 110 7.12
Mixed Race 31 2.01
White (Hispanic) 19 1.23
White (Caucasian) 1,370 88.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of RICKARDS in historical publications

RICKARD. RICKARDS. See Richard.

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 RICKARDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RICKARDS.

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 RICKARDS

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