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The AYLWARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,032 13690 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 340 12987 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1692 -703 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 374 4246 0.002 23
United Kingdom 1,134 4739 0.002 25
Top States for AYLWARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 357 2345 0.006 56
New York 165 10840 0.001 9
Florida 144 11764 0.001 9
Illinois 129 9543 0.001 10
Ohio 123 10046 0.001 11
Top States for AYLWARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 37 2569 0.006 61
Massachusetts 357 2345 0.006 56
New Hampshire 46 3576 0.004 37
Maine 33 4841 0.003 26
Rhode Island 27 5310 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of AYLWARD

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 AYLWARD 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 AYLWARD 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 AYLWARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 21 1.03
Mixed Race 21 1.03
White (Hispanic) 15 0.74
White (Caucasian) 1,969 96.9
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of AYLWARD in historical publications

AYLWARD. Elward and Ailward were personal names before 108G.

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 AYLWARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AYLWARD.

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 AYLWARD

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