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The LANGFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,650 1763 0.007 69
United States (1880 census) 3,400 1798 0.007 68
Change since 1880 +15250 +35 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 1,744 931 0.011 107
United Kingdom 6,703 940 0.015 146
Top States for LANGFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,442 1050 0.012 117
Florida 1,604 1285 0.010 100
California 1,315 2402 0.004 39
Georgia 1,290 834 0.016 158
Alabama 1,178 646 0.026 265
Top States for LANGFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,178 646 0.026 265
Mississippi 585 755 0.021 206
Tennessee 1,023 843 0.018 180
Georgia 1,290 834 0.016 158
Arkansas 385 912 0.014 144

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

Classification and Origin of LANGFORD

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 LANGFORD 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 LANGFORD 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 LANGFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 308 1.65
White (Hispanic) 269 1.44
Asian/Pacific 91 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 65 0.35
White (Caucasian) 14,989 80.37
Black/African American 2,928 15.7

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

Meaning of LANGFORD in historical publications

LANGFORD. Parishes, &c., in cos. Bedford, Berks, Norfolk, Essex, Somerset, Nottingham, Wilts,&c. The Cornish famil) derive from Roger de Langford, sheriff of Cornwall in 1225, who took his surname from his estate of Langford in the parish of Marham Chui-ch. C. S. Gilbert's Cornwall.

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 LANGFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANGFORD.

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 LANGFORD

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