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The HARFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,792 15099 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 771 6784 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +1021 -8315 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 322 4899 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,143 4717 0.002 25
Top States for HARFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 185 10661 0.001 10
Ohio 150 9113 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 136 11266 0.001 11
California 131 18575 0.000 4
Florida 119 15002 0.001 7
Top States for HARFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 69 3020 0.005 54
South Dakota 32 4153 0.004 42
Alaska 18 5501 0.003 29
Iowa 79 5832 0.003 27
Nebraska 39 7112 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of HARFORD

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 HARFORD 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 HARFORD 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 HARFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 74 4.13
Mixed Race 26 1.45
White (Hispanic) 26 1.45
Asian/Pacific 23 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.61
White (Caucasian) 1,632 91.07

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

Meaning of HARFORD in historical publications

HARFORD. The town and county of Hertford are vulgarly so pronounced, but there is a parish of Harford in Devonshire with which however the family do not appear to have been connected. According to Burke, "the citnalnda gentisviPi& Bosbury, CO. Hereford, in the church of which parish there are several ancient monuments of the family." B.L.G.

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 HARFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARFORD.

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 HARFORD

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