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The BARHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,961 5378 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,213 4636 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +4748 -742 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 331 4762 0.002 20
United Kingdom 2,519 2431 0.005 55
Top States for BARHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 816 1537 0.010 101
Texas 602 3778 0.003 29
California 453 6256 0.001 13
Tennessee 442 1951 0.008 78
Mississippi 320 1350 0.011 112
Top States for BARHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 320 1350 0.011 112
North Carolina 816 1537 0.010 101
Arkansas 227 1597 0.008 85
Tennessee 442 1951 0.008 78
Oklahoma 168 2845 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of BARHAM

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 BARHAM 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 BARHAM 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 BARHAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 902 15.13
Mixed Race 87 1.46
White (Hispanic) 71 1.19
Asian/Pacific 30 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 30 0.5
White (Caucasian) 4,841 81.21

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

Meaning of BARHAM in historical publications

BARHAM. The family were lords of Barham, in Kent, at an early period, and according to Pliilipot, tlie Kentish genealogist, descendants of Robert de Berham, son of Richard Fitz-Urse, and brother of one of the assassins of Thomas ii Beckett.

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 BARHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARHAM.

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 BARHAM

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