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The BASKERVILLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,424 8808 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 645 7872 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +2779 -936 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 245 6281 0.001 15
United Kingdom 905 5697 0.002 20
Top States for BASKERVILLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 601 1738 0.008 85
New Jersey 337 3218 0.004 40
New York 246 8752 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 230 7335 0.002 19
California 211 13267 0.001 6
Top States for BASKERVILLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 601 1738 0.008 85
Washington DC 40 1686 0.007 70
New Jersey 337 3218 0.004 40
Iowa 103 4720 0.004 35
Maryland 170 3902 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of BASKERVILLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BASKERVILLE 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 BASKERVILLE 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 BASKERVILLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 796 23.25
Mixed Race 104 3.04
White (Hispanic) 35 1.02
Asian/Pacific 10 0.29
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.2
Black/African American 2,472 72.2

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

Meaning of BASKERVILLE in historical publications

BASKERVILLE. The head of this family was at the battle of Hastings, (Taylor's Roman de Rou, p. 229.) He is stjded Martels de Basqueville (Tljid). The parish of Baskerville, now Bacqueville, is in the arrondissement of Dieppe. One of his descendants, who was butler to king Stephen, resumed the name of (William) Martel.

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 BASKERVILLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BASKERVILLE.

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 BASKERVILLE

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