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The BYFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,182 20778 0 4
United States (1880 census) 159 22762 0 3
Change since 1880 +1023 +1984 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 114 12730 0.001 7
United Kingdom 1,657 3453 0.004 36
Top States for BYFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 222 8249 0.001 11
Oklahoma 146 3172 0.004 42
Tennessee 119 5305 0.002 21
Arkansas 100 3343 0.004 37
Illinois 64 20524 0.001 5
Top States for BYFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 146 3172 0.004 42
Arkansas 100 3343 0.004 37
Alaska 22 4167 0.004 35
Tennessee 119 5305 0.002 21
Mississippi 58 4707 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of BYFORD

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 BYFORD 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 BYFORD 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 BYFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 47 3.98
Native American/Alaskan 24 2.03
Mixed Race 21 1.78
White (Hispanic) 21 1.78
White (Caucasian) 1,069 90.44
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of BYFORD in historical publications

BYFORD. A parish In Herts.

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 BYFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BYFORD.

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 BYFORD

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