The BRECKENRIDGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,686	6651	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,361	4183	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+3325	-2468	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	146	10145	0.001	9
United Kingdom	331	11950	0.001	7

Top States for BRECKENRIDGE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	529	5534	0.002	16
Ohio	307	4694	0.003	27
Missouri	267	2894	0.005	48
Texas	241	7929	0.001	12
Florida	203	9519	0.001	13
Top States for BRECKENRIDGE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	179	2055	0.007	67
Missouri	267	2894	0.005	48
Idaho	59	3241	0.005	46
Oklahoma	156	3091	0.005	45
Iowa	111	3927	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of BRECKENRIDGE

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 BRECKENRIDGE 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 BRECKENRIDGE 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 BRECKENRIDGE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	865	18.46
Mixed Race	89	1.9
White (Hispanic)	58	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.83
Asian/Pacific	20	0.43
White (Caucasian)	3,615	77.14

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

Similar names to BRECKENRIDGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRECKENRIDGE.

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.