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The WHITEFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,352 18755 0 5
United States (1880 census) 494 9780 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +858 -8975 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 251 6136 0.002 15
United Kingdom 1,121 4786 0.002 24
Top States for WHITEFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 173 7939 0.001 14
Maryland 138 3898 0.003 26
Minnesota 112 5923 0.002 23
New York 110 15559 0.001 6
Michigan 108 10595 0.001 11
Top States for WHITEFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 138 3898 0.003 26
Minnesota 112 5923 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 173 7939 0.001 14
Vermont 7 10582 0.001 11
Michigan 108 10595 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 WHITEFORD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called WHITEFORD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called WHITEFORD in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a WHITEFORD by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of WHITEFORD

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

Ethnic distribution of WHITEFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 19 1.41
Mixed Race 14 1.04
Asian/Pacific 12 0.89
Black/African American 7 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.52
White (Caucasian) 1,293 95.64

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

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

Meaning of WHITEFORD in historical publications

WHITEFORD. "The first of this

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 WHITEFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WHITEFORD.

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 WHITEFORD

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