The GRISWOLD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,396	3167	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	5,395	1123	0.011	108
Change since 1880	+5001	-2044	-0.007	-70
Other Countries
Australia	4	183799	0	0
United Kingdom	12	30258	0	0

Top States for GRISWOLD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	927	3265	0.003	27
New York	700	2694	0.004	37
Florida	678	2983	0.004	42
Michigan	665	1667	0.007	67
Connecticut	563	643	0.017	165
Top States for GRISWOLD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	146	660	0.024	240
Connecticut	563	643	0.017	165
New Hampshire	110	1782	0.009	89
Massachusetts	537	1675	0.008	85
Michigan	665	1667	0.007	67

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

Classification and Origin of GRISWOLD

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 GRISWOLD 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 GRISWOLD 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 GRISWOLD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	402	3.87
White (Hispanic)	151	1.45
Mixed Race	131	1.26
Asian/Pacific	51	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	36	0.35
White (Caucasian)	9,625	92.58

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

Similar names to GRISWOLD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRISWOLD.

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.