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The BLOUNT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,882 1738 0.007 70
United States (1880 census) 2,877 2121 0.006 58
Change since 1880 +16005 +383 +0.001 +12
Other Countries
Australia 129 11334 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,899 3093 0.004 41
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.

Classification and Origin of BLOUNT

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 BLOUNT 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 BLOUNT 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 BLOUNT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 351 1.86
White (Hispanic) 272 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 98 0.52
Asian/Pacific 51 0.27
White (Caucasian) 9,307 49.29
Black/African American 8,803 46.62

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

Meaning of BLOUNT in historical publications

BLOUNT. French hlond, fair-haired, light-complexioned. Tlie great baronial house of Blount, lords Moimtjoy, deduced themselves from William, son of Blound, earl of Guisnes, one of the companions of the Conqueror, who was traditionally derived from the Bimdi of Italy and the Flavii of classical Rome ! It is probable that there are several families so designated from the personal peculiarity of the original assumers, without any consanguinity. It has taken various forms ; as for example in the H.R. le Blond, le Blont, Blunt, le Blunte, le Blonnd, &c. It may be regarded as the Anglo-Norman synonym of our indigenous White ; and some of the Irish Blunts have in recent times translated it into AMiite. The Norwegian royal surname, Harfa(jer, means ' fair-haired,' and in the H.R. we have a Flaxenuehed.

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 BLOUNT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLOUNT.

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Potential typos for BLOUNT

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