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The HOLROYD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 944 24763 0 4
United States (1880 census) 226 17631 0 5
Change since 1880 +718 -7132 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 255 6037 0.002 16
United Kingdom 2,990 2072 0.007 65
Top States for HOLROYD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 110 19373 0.000 3
Florida 93 16591 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 60 21446 0.000 5
Michigan 55 20399 0.001 6
New York 45 35522 0.000 2
Top States for HOLROYD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 9 6856 0.002 18
Kansas 33 8768 0.001 12
Connecticut 41 10217 0.001 12
New Hampshire 13 10821 0.001 11
Nebraska 18 13273 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 HOLROYD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOLROYD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOLROYD in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOLROYD by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOLROYD

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 HOLROYD 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 HOLROYD 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 HOLROYD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 921 97.56
Mixed Race 9 0.95
White (Hispanic) 6 0.64
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of HOLROYD in historical publications

HOLROYD. A local name. (See royd.) The place is probably in the W. Biding of Yorkshire, where William de Howroyde or Holroyd, the Earl of Sheffield's ancestor, flourished tem). Edw. I.

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 HOLROYD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLROYD.

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 HOLROYD

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