The BUCKINGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,829	4199	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	2,753	2204	0.006	55
Change since 1880	+5076	-1995	-0.003	-26
Other Countries
Australia	1,144	1440	0.007	70
United Kingdom	4,949	1266	0.011	108

Top States for BUCKINGHAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	648	4306	0.002	19
Ohio	569	2330	0.005	50
Illinois	412	2982	0.003	33
Texas	393	5046	0.002	19
New York	363	5067	0.002	19
Top States for BUCKINGHAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	46	1194	0.009	93
Montana	80	1360	0.009	89
Iowa	218	1568	0.007	74
Maine	86	2397	0.007	67
Delaware	52	2546	0.007	66

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

Classification and Origin of BUCKINGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	695	8.88
White (Hispanic)	121	1.55
Mixed Race	115	1.47
Asian/Pacific	51	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.51
White (Caucasian)	6,807	86.95

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

Similar names to BUCKINGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUCKINGHAM.

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.