The HAROLD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,428	5008	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,285	4414	0.003	26
Change since 1880	+5143	-594	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	164	9057	0.001	10
United Kingdom	1,050	5057	0.002	23

Top States for HAROLD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	505	2926	0.004	44
California	502	5937	0.001	15
Virginia	473	2062	0.007	67
Florida	367	5710	0.002	23
New York	334	6138	0.002	18
Top States for HAROLD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	205	1353	0.011	113
Virginia	473	2062	0.007	67
Ohio	505	2926	0.004	44
Kansas	117	2984	0.004	44
Louisiana	181	3315	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of HAROLD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	131	2.04
Mixed Race	121	1.88
Native American/Alaskan	50	0.78
Asian/Pacific	47	0.73
White (Caucasian)	4,524	70.38
Black/African American	1,555	24.19

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

Similar names to HAROLD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAROLD.

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.