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The ENGLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,861 1113 0.011 107
United States (1880 census) 5,494 1102 0.011 110
Change since 1880 +23367 -11 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 1,283 1286 0.008 78
United Kingdom 8,214 743 0.018 179
Top States for ENGLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 2,339 369 0.041 411
California 1,825 1818 0.005 54
Texas 1,809 1397 0.009 87
Ohio 1,485 895 0.013 131
Kentucky 1,460 413 0.036 361
Top States for ENGLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 2,339 369 0.041 411
Kentucky 1,460 413 0.036 361
Oklahoma 964 467 0.028 279
West Virginia 460 606 0.025 254
Indiana 1,404 483 0.023 231

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

Classification and Origin of ENGLAND

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 ENGLAND 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 ENGLAND 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 ENGLAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 456 1.58
Mixed Race 453 1.57
Native American/Alaskan 329 1.14
Asian/Pacific 101 0.35
White (Caucasian) 26,113 90.48
Black/African American 1,411 4.89

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

Meaning of ENGLAND in historical publications

ENGLAND. Engelond occurs several times in U.R. as a surname, Avithout any prefix. It seems quite absurd to liave adopted the name of one's country while still residing in it, as a family name; but I am inclined to think that it was first given to an Englishman when living in a foreign country, and that he, on his return, continued to use it. Or, England may possibly be the name of some obscure locality of Avhich the family were anciently possessed, just as tlie Hollands take their name, not from tlie land of Dutchmen, but from a district of Lincolnshire.

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 ENGLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ENGLAND.

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 ENGLAND

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