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The GREENLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,371 18560 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 295 14466 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1076 -4094 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 286 5437 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,117 4803 0.002 24
Top States for GREENLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 213 7389 0.002 17
Utah 129 2364 0.006 58
California 114 21329 0.000 3
Florida 90 19470 0.001 6
Washington 82 9151 0.001 14
Top States for GREENLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 129 2364 0.006 58
Alaska 12 8681 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 213 7389 0.002 17
Iowa 48 9775 0.002 16
Washington 82 9151 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of GREENLAND

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 GREENLAND 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 GREENLAND 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 GREENLAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 71 5.18
White (Hispanic) 20 1.46
Mixed Race 15 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.88
Asian/Pacific 5 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,248 91.03

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

Meaning of GREENLAND in historical publications

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

Similar names to GREENLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREENLAND.

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 GREENLAND

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