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The BIRKHEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 708 31014 0 3
United States (1880 census) 303 14173 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +405 -16841 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 28 40482 0 2
United Kingdom 299 12756 0.001 7
Top States for BIRKHEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 106 13741 0.001 5
Missouri 60 10272 0.001 11
Arkansas 51 5189 0.002 19
Illinois 51 23407 0.000 4
Kentucky 47 7012 0.001 12
Top States for BIRKHEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 51 5189 0.002 19
Kentucky 47 7012 0.001 12
Missouri 60 10272 0.001 11
Texas 106 13741 0.001 5
Indiana 27 19561 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BIRKHEAD

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 BIRKHEAD 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 BIRKHEAD 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 BIRKHEAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 639 90.25
Black/African American 40 5.65
White (Hispanic) 12 1.69
Mixed Race 7 0.99
Asian/Pacific 5 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.71

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

Meaning of BIRKHEAD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BIRKHEAD.

Similar names to BIRKHEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRKHEAD.

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 BIRKHEAD

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