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The FERNALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,945 14168 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 1,217 4623 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +728 -9545 -0.001 -17
Other Countries
Australia 2 250358 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FERNALD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 354 649 0.028 278
Massachusetts 288 2762 0.005 45
New Hampshire 212 815 0.017 172
California 204 11358 0.001 6
Florida 136 11948 0.001 9
Top States for FERNALD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 354 649 0.028 278
New Hampshire 212 815 0.017 172
Massachusetts 288 2762 0.005 45
Vermont 14 5737 0.002 23
Delaware 14 8726 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of FERNALD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FERNALD surname.

Ethnic distribution of FERNALD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 34 1.75
Mixed Race 26 1.34
Black/African American 7 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,869 96.09
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

FERNALD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FERNALD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FERNALD.

Similar names to FERNALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERNALD.

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 FERNALD

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