The BLAIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	75,135	380	0.028	278
United States (1880 census)	18,078	301	0.036	362
Change since 1880	+57057	-79	-0.008	-84
Other Countries
Australia	3,094	499	0.019	189
United Kingdom	11,920	492	0.026	260

Top States for BLAIR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	5,293	454	0.025	254
California	5,268	597	0.016	156
Ohio	4,771	227	0.042	420
Florida	4,352	416	0.027	272
Kentucky	3,554	119	0.088	879
Top States for BLAIR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	3,554	119	0.088	879
Tennessee	3,384	224	0.059	595
Vermont	344	197	0.057	565
Ohio	4,771	227	0.042	420
Alabama	1,833	374	0.041	412

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

Classification and Origin of BLAIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	458	0.61
Asian/Pacific	353	0.47
White (Caucasian)	61,708	82.13
Black/African American	10,158	13.52
Mixed Race	1,262	1.68
White (Hispanic)	1,195	1.59

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

Meaning of BLAIR in historical publications

(origin: Celtic. Local) From Blair or Blar, which originally signified "a cleared plain," but from the Celts generally choosing such plains for their fields of battle, blair came to signify a battle. There is a small village called the Blair near Lochord, about two miles from Lochleven, in Fifeshire, Scotland. It signifies a spot where a battle was fought, "locus pugnœ." Here, it is supposed, an engagement took place between the Romans and the Caledonians, A.D. 83.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BLAIR. The Blairs "of that ilk" In Ayrshire, have been seated in that co. for more than GOO years. They claim the chiefship of all the Blairs in the S. and W. of Scotl.. though that honour is challenged by the B.'s of ij.althayock, co. Perth, who date back to the beginning of the XIII. cent. B.L.G. Blair, in Scottish topography,

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 BLAIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLAIR.

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.