The BLOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,646	5640	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	3,504	1744	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+2142	-3896	-0.005	-49
Other Countries
Australia	334	4726	0.002	20
United Kingdom	1,465	3836	0.003	32

Top States for BLOOD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	429	2082	0.007	68
New York	382	5020	0.002	20
California	365	7416	0.001	11
Florida	284	6838	0.002	18
Pennsylvania	275	5504	0.002	22
Top States for BLOOD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	224	1123	0.018	176
New Hampshire	135	1452	0.011	109
Vermont	66	1652	0.011	108
Idaho	117	1503	0.009	90
Utah	153	1929	0.007	69

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

Classification and Origin of BLOOD

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 BLOOD 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 BLOOD 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 BLOOD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	91	1.61
Mixed Race	89	1.58
Native American/Alaskan	58	1.03
White (Hispanic)	55	0.97
Asian/Pacific	14	0.25
White (Caucasian)	5,339	94.56

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

Meaning of BLOOD in historical publications

(origin: In the Dutch) signifies timorous, cowardly; a simpleton. Lower informs us that Godkin, Blood (S'blood), and Sacre, may be regarded as clipped oaths, and given as names to the persons in the habit of using them; and that in the neighborhood of a fashionable square in London, are now living surgeons whose names are Churchyard, Death, Blood, and Slaughter.

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

BLOOD. O. Norse hlaudr, bashful, timid. Ferguson.

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 BLOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLOOD.

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.