The FIELDING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,735	5561	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	70	40167	0	1
Change since 1880	+5665	+34606	+N/A	+20
Other Countries
Australia	1,285	1281	0.008	79
United Kingdom	6,767	932	0.015	147

Top States for FIELDING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	623	4593	0.002	18
Texas	462	4562	0.002	22
Florida	424	4727	0.003	27
Massachusetts	316	2763	0.005	50
Utah	283	1053	0.013	127
Top States for FIELDING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	283	1053	0.013	127
Idaho	89	2053	0.007	69
New Hampshire	71	2587	0.006	57
Rhode Island	55	2887	0.005	52
Maine	66	3058	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of FIELDING

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 FIELDING 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 FIELDING 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 FIELDING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	361	6.29
White (Hispanic)	134	2.34
Mixed Race	94	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	44	0.77
Asian/Pacific	30	0.52
White (Caucasian)	5,072	88.44

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

Meaning of FIELDING in historical publications

This family trace their descent to the Earls of Hapsburgh, in Germany. Geffery, a son of Edward of Holland, served with Henry III. in the wars of England, and because his father had dominions in Lauffenburgh and Renfelden, he took the name of Felden or Fielding.

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

FIELDING. In a docmneut dated 9 Edw. IL, mentioned by Collins, Geoffrey de Fielding calls himself " Filius Galfridi filii Galfridi, comitisde Hapsburget domini iu Laufenburget RiuFiLDiNG iuGermania.'' It appears from the same authority that Geoffrey, earl of Hapsburg, by the oppression of Rodolph, emperor of Germany, being reduced to extreme poverty, Geoffrey, one of his sons, " served Henry III. in his wars in England, and because his father. Earl Geoffrey, had pretensions to the dominions of Laufenburg and 'RinfikUntj, he took the name of Filding."

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 FIELDING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIELDING.

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.