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The DRUMMOND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,032 1937 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 3,351 1827 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +13681 -110 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 2,091 773 0.013 128
United Kingdom 7,576 811 0.016 165
Top States for DRUMMOND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 1,292 1599 0.008 81
California 1,185 2677 0.003 35
Ohio 960 1422 0.008 85
Texas 854 2703 0.004 41
New York 837 2238 0.004 44
Top States for DRUMMOND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 316 366 0.040 403
South Carolina 757 863 0.019 189
Alabama 795 957 0.018 179
Virginia 799 1153 0.011 113
Maryland 587 1030 0.011 111

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

Classification and Origin of DRUMMOND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 320 1.88
White (Hispanic) 266 1.56
Asian/Pacific 60 0.35
Native American/Alaskan 48 0.28
White (Caucasian) 11,720 68.81
Black/African American 4,622 27.14

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

Meaning of DRUMMOND in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic. Local) From Druim, the back, and monadh, mountain, a name of place--the back of the mountain.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to DRUMMOND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRUMMOND.

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 DRUMMOND

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