The EDWARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,207	6074	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	4,185	1477	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+1022	-4597	-0.006	-65
Other Countries
Australia	341	4627	0.002	21
United Kingdom	1,233	4413	0.003	27

Top States for EDWARD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	470	3568	0.002	25
California	448	5469	0.001	13
Texas	389	4714	0.002	19
Florida	384	4590	0.002	24
Michigan	283	3661	0.003	28
Top States for EDWARD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	167	2988	0.004	37
Michigan	283	3661	0.003	28
Mississippi	81	3396	0.003	28
Connecticut	94	4214	0.003	28
Georgia	218	3523	0.003	27

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

Classification and Origin of EDWARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	165	3.17
Asian/Pacific	148	2.84
Mixed Race	144	2.77
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.58
Black/African American	2,654	50.97
White (Caucasian)	2,066	39.68

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

Similar names to EDWARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDWARD.

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.