The DUNFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,757	8128	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	468	10195	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+3289	+2067	0	+5
Other Countries
Australia	265	5826	0.002	16
United Kingdom	2,678	2318	0.006	58

Top States for DUNFORD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	839	1161	0.012	119
Florida	222	8983	0.001	14
Utah	202	1592	0.009	90
Ohio	194	7395	0.002	17
California	185	14206	0.001	5
Top States for DUNFORD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	839	1161	0.012	119
Utah	202	1592	0.009	90
West Virginia	140	1912	0.008	77
Delaware	27	5311	0.003	34
North Dakota	22	5445	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of DUNFORD

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 DUNFORD 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 DUNFORD 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 DUNFORD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	168	4.47
White (Hispanic)	55	1.46
Mixed Race	53	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.53
Asian/Pacific	16	0.43
White (Caucasian)	3,445	91.7

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

Similar names to DUNFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNFORD.

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.