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The BLANCHARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 36,764 860 0.014 136
United States (1880 census) 11,522 515 0.023 230
Change since 1880 +25242 -345 -0.009 -94
Other Countries
Australia 641 2520 0.004 39
United Kingdom 3,548 1765 0.008 77
Top States for BLANCHARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 5,437 74 0.122 1,217
California 2,296 1397 0.007 68
Massachusetts 2,259 314 0.036 356
Florida 2,209 888 0.014 138
Texas 2,107 1176 0.010 101
Top States for BLANCHARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 5,437 74 0.122 1,217
Vermont 512 94 0.084 841
Maine 833 254 0.065 653
New Hampshire 634 219 0.051 513
Massachusetts 2,259 314 0.036 356

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

Classification and Origin of BLANCHARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 614 1.67
Mixed Race 507 1.38
Native American/Alaskan 316 0.86
Asian/Pacific 151 0.41
White (Caucasian) 32,007 87.06
Black/African American 3,173 8.63

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

Meaning of BLANCHARD in historical publications

BLANCHARD. BLANSIIARD. Cotgrave says, "an order of Friers, who goe ordinarily in white sheets." It had most likely a wider application, to any person who aifected white raiment. See Jamieson.

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 BLANCHARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLANCHARD.

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 BLANCHARD

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