The FLOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,652	1998	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	6,251	979	0.013	125
Change since 1880	+10401	-1019	-0.007	-63
Other Countries
Australia	1,410	1159	0.009	86
United Kingdom	4,106	1526	0.009	89

Top States for FLOOD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,619	1159	0.009	85
California	1,171	2795	0.003	35
Florida	997	2151	0.006	62
Pennsylvania	936	1654	0.008	76
Illinois	840	1579	0.007	68
Top States for FLOOD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	156	653	0.026	256
Maine	274	973	0.021	215
Washington DC	86	789	0.015	150
Wisconsin	631	999	0.012	118
Massachusetts	658	1449	0.010	104

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

Classification and Origin of FLOOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	275	1.65
Mixed Race	241	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	205	1.23
Asian/Pacific	82	0.49
White (Caucasian)	13,500	81.07
Black/African American	2,348	14.1

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

Similar names to FLOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLOOD.

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.