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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

'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.

Meaning of ALFORD in historical publications

ALFORD. Parishes in cos. Lincoln and

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ALFORD

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