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The BUFFALO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 801 28142 0 3
United States (1880 census) 108 29865 0 2
Change since 1880 +693 +1723 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 1 280933 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BUFFALO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 82 18652 0.000 4
California 70 32952 0.000 2
Oklahoma 61 6949 0.002 18
Arkansas 55 5438 0.002 21
South Dakota 45 2839 0.006 60
Top States for BUFFALO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 45 2839 0.006 60
Arkansas 55 5438 0.002 21
Oklahoma 61 6949 0.002 18
Montana 12 12031 0.001 13
Iowa 28 15900 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of BUFFALO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BUFFALO surname.

Ethnic distribution of BUFFALO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 435 54.31
Native American/Alaskan 217 27.09
Black/African American 114 14.23
Mixed Race 22 2.75
White (Hispanic) 13 1.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

BUFFALO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BUFFALO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BUFFALO.

Similar names to BUFFALO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUFFALO.

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 BUFFALO

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