The ARMSTEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,162	4548	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	1,922	3078	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+5240	-1470	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	98	14563	0.001	6
United Kingdom	342	11678	0.001	7

Top States for ARMSTEAD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	508	1607	0.011	114
Michigan	489	2718	0.005	49
Louisiana	457	1599	0.010	102
Virginia	411	2513	0.006	58
California	369	8377	0.001	11
Top States for ARMSTEAD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	508	1607	0.011	114
Louisiana	457	1599	0.010	102
West Virginia	157	1852	0.009	87
Washington DC	40	1746	0.007	70
Maryland	345	2033	0.007	65

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

Classification and Origin of ARMSTEAD

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 ARMSTEAD 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 ARMSTEAD 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 ARMSTEAD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	212	2.96
White (Hispanic)	84	1.17
Asian/Pacific	24	0.34
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.31
Black/African American	5,631	78.62
White (Caucasian)	1,189	16.6

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

Similar names to ARMSTEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARMSTEAD.

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.