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The BORLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,707 8223 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,110 5007 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +2597 -3216 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 237 6465 0.001 14
United Kingdom 1,763 3269 0.004 38
Top States for BORLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 323 8408 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 307 5032 0.002 25
Ohio 305 4627 0.003 27
Florida 282 6986 0.002 18
Texas 182 9823 0.001 9
Top States for BORLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 38 2301 0.006 61
Oregon 104 4239 0.003 30
Vermont 18 5033 0.003 30
Ohio 305 4627 0.003 27
Nebraska 43 6207 0.003 25

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

Classification and Origin of BORLAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 75 2.02
White (Hispanic) 68 1.83
Mixed Race 60 1.62
Asian/Pacific 36 0.97
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.38
White (Caucasian) 3,454 93.18

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

Meaning of BORLAND in historical publications

(origin: Cor. Br. Local) The high land; the swelling or rising land; from bor, swelling, rising, and land. If from the Saxon, it signifies the land belonging to the common people. Bordlands were lands which the lords kept in their hands for the maintenance of their board or table. Borland is the name of a village in Fifeshire, Scotland, whence the family may have originated.

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


Similar names to BORLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BORLAND.

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 BORLAND

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