The ALFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,050	1064	0.011	111
United States (1880 census)	5,648	1082	0.011	113
Change since 1880	+24402	+18	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	1,103	1506	0.007	67
United Kingdom	3,244	1929	0.007	71

Top States for ALFORD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,453	775	0.017	166
Florida	2,398	867	0.015	150
Georgia	2,029	535	0.025	248
North Carolina	1,971	608	0.024	245
Mississippi	1,804	227	0.063	634
Top States for ALFORD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,804	227	0.063	634
South Carolina	1,519	424	0.038	379
Louisiana	1,671	368	0.037	374
Alabama	1,280	615	0.029	288
Georgia	2,029	535	0.025	248

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ALFORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	526	1.75
Mixed Race	433	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	219	0.73
Asian/Pacific	129	0.43
White (Caucasian)	19,845	66.04
Black/African American	8,901	29.62

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

Similar names to ALFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALFORD.

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.