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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

'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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BLAIR

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