The CLOUD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,985	2377	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	3,456	1773	0.007	69
Change since 1880	+10529	-604	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	6	131316	0	0
United Kingdom	193	16875	0	4

Top States for CLOUD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,813	1418	0.009	87
California	1,037	3129	0.003	31
Georgia	913	1207	0.011	112
Florida	809	2653	0.005	51
Louisiana	739	922	0.017	165
Top States for CLOUD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	616	766	0.018	179
Louisiana	739	922	0.017	165
South Dakota	116	734	0.015	154
Delaware	114	1265	0.015	145
Alaska	75	1079	0.012	120

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

Classification and Origin of CLOUD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	980	7.01
Mixed Race	385	2.75
White (Hispanic)	267	1.91
Asian/Pacific	56	0.4
White (Caucasian)	9,988	71.42
Black/African American	2,310	16.52

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

Similar names to CLOUD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLOUD.

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.