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The BASHFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 656 32939 0 2
United States (1880 census) 284 14857 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +372 -18082 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 302 5188 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,582 3581 0.003 34
Top States for BASHFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 98 17270 0.001 5
California 49 39822 0.000 1
Colorado 45 10613 0.001 10
Florida 37 36678 0.000 2
Kentucky 33 9012 0.001 8
Top States for BASHFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 9 6589 0.002 18
Colorado 45 10613 0.001 10
Delaware 7 14784 0.001 9
Kentucky 33 9012 0.001 8
Utah 18 9958 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of BASHFORD

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 BASHFORD 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 BASHFORD 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 BASHFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 602 91.77
Black/African American 47 7.16
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BASHFORD in historical publications

BASHFORD. Basford, places in cos. Notts, Stafford, and Chester.

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 BASHFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BASHFORD.

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 BASHFORD

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