The LAIRD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,031	1828	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	4,128	1499	0.008	83
Change since 1880	+13903	-329	-0.001	-16
Other Countries
Australia	1,237	1334	0.008	76
United Kingdom	5,274	1186	0.011	115

Top States for LAIRD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,922	1274	0.009	92
California	1,485	2090	0.004	44
Pennsylvania	1,389	948	0.011	113
Florida	1,059	1899	0.007	66
Illinois	739	1678	0.006	60
Top States for LAIRD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	706	611	0.025	248
Wyoming	100	508	0.020	203
Montana	143	697	0.016	159
Delaware	104	1306	0.013	133
Idaho	166	1006	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of LAIRD

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 LAIRD 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 LAIRD 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 LAIRD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	952	5.28
White (Hispanic)	290	1.61
Mixed Race	224	1.24
Asian/Pacific	92	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	72	0.4
White (Caucasian)	16,401	90.96

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

Similar names to LAIRD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAIRD.

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.