The BACKSTROM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,333	12241	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	201	19254	0	4
Change since 1880	+2132	+7013	+N/A	+5
Other Countries
Australia	48	26482	0	3
United Kingdom	33	27322	0	1

Top States for BACKSTROM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	318	2145	0.006	65
Washington	220	3790	0.004	37
California	214	13078	0.001	6
Illinois	145	10146	0.001	12
Pennsylvania	109	14908	0.001	9
Top States for BACKSTROM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	318	2145	0.006	65
North Dakota	31	3997	0.005	48
Washington	220	3790	0.004	37
Iowa	107	4465	0.004	37
Mississippi	102	3440	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of BACKSTROM

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BACKSTROM 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 BACKSTROM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	213	9.13
White (Hispanic)	28	1.2
Mixed Race	14	0.6
Asian/Pacific	10	0.43
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.26
White (Caucasian)	2,062	88.38

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

Similar names to BACKSTROM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACKSTROM.

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.