The FORDYCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,574	11273	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	586	8500	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+1988	-2773	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	200	7560	0.001	12
United Kingdom	882	5825	0.002	19

Top States for FORDYCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	295	5150	0.002	24
Ohio	198	6801	0.002	17
California	192	12946	0.001	6
Missouri	165	4416	0.003	29
Florida	145	12275	0.001	9
Top States for FORDYCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	111	2163	0.006	61
Wyoming	17	3934	0.003	34
Missouri	165	4416	0.003	29
Iowa	73	6145	0.002	25
Pennsylvania	295	5150	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of FORDYCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	97	3.77
White (Hispanic)	43	1.67
Mixed Race	33	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.35
Asian/Pacific	5	0.19
White (Caucasian)	2,387	92.74

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

Similar names to FORDYCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORDYCE.

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.