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The GRAFTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,268 9174 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 937 5762 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +2331 -3412 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 155 9528 0.001 9
United Kingdom 924 5606 0.002 20
Top States for GRAFTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 282 5230 0.002 23
Illinois 270 4650 0.002 22
Ohio 250 5375 0.002 22
Florida 231 8001 0.001 14
California 205 11958 0.001 6
Top States for GRAFTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 172 3191 0.004 38
Mississippi 99 3174 0.003 35
Pennsylvania 282 5230 0.002 23
Ohio 250 5375 0.002 22
Illinois 270 4650 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of GRAFTON

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 GRAFTON 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 GRAFTON 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 GRAFTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 296 9.06
White (Hispanic) 49 1.5
Mixed Race 32 0.98
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.37
Asian/Pacific 6 0.18
White (Caucasian) 2,873 87.91

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

Meaning of GRAFTON in historical publications

GRAFTON. Parishes and places in cos. Chester, Glouccstei-, Hereford, Oxford, Worcester, Warwick, and Northampton. It is from Grafton-Ecgis in the last-named CO. that the Duke of Grafton takes his title.

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 GRAFTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAFTON.

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 GRAFTON

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