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The LANKFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,827 2793 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 2,471 2465 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +9356 -328 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 35 33746 0 2
United Kingdom 73 25069 0 2
Top States for LANKFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,526 1659 0.007 73
Tennessee 1,179 777 0.021 207
North Carolina 877 1448 0.011 109
Alabama 821 950 0.018 185
Georgia 722 1513 0.009 88
Top States for LANKFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,179 777 0.021 207
Delaware 155 905 0.020 198
Alabama 821 950 0.018 185
Oklahoma 417 1173 0.012 121
North Carolina 877 1448 0.011 109

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

Classification and Origin of LANKFORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 187 1.58
Mixed Race 185 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 116 0.98
Asian/Pacific 56 0.47
White (Caucasian) 10,127 85.63
Black/African American 1,157 9.78

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

Meaning of LANKFORD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LANKFORD.

Similar names to LANKFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANKFORD.

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 LANKFORD

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