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The SHERRARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,123 13194 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 479 10010 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1644 -3184 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 113 12863 0.001 7
United Kingdom 492 8949 0.001 11
Top States for SHERRARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 305 1908 0.008 75
Texas 275 7162 0.001 13
Florida 143 12920 0.001 9
California 127 19287 0.000 4
Ohio 113 12012 0.001 10
Top States for SHERRARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 305 1908 0.008 75
Montana 28 5375 0.003 31
West Virginia 54 3693 0.003 30
Maine 32 5358 0.003 25
Iowa 53 9021 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of SHERRARD

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 SHERRARD 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 SHERRARD 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 SHERRARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 148 6.97
Mixed Race 25 1.18
White (Hispanic) 18 0.85
White (Caucasian) 1,914 90.16
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 SHERRARD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SHERRARD in historical publications

SHERARD. SHERRARD. " Our

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 SHERRARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHERRARD.

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 SHERRARD

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