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The HOLFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,219 20298 0 4
United States (1880 census) 315 13780 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +904 -6518 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 154 9632 0.001 9
United Kingdom 1,296 4250 0.003 28
Top States for HOLFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 117 12473 0.001 9
New York 114 17883 0.001 6
California 108 23281 0.000 3
Michigan 68 20048 0.001 7
Washington 65 12073 0.001 11
Top States for HOLFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 36 9873 0.001 13
South Carolina 47 8334 0.001 12
Wisconsin 62 15605 0.001 12
Washington 65 12073 0.001 11
Idaho 14 13123 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of HOLFORD

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 HOLFORD 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 HOLFORD 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 HOLFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 983 80.64
Black/African American 128 10.5
Mixed Race 46 3.77
White (Hispanic) 38 3.12
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HOLFORD in historical publications

HOLFORD. A parish in Somersetshire.

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 HOLFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLFORD.

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 HOLFORD

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