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The MUIRHEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,192 12868 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 271 15426 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1921 +2558 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 600 2696 0.004 37
United Kingdom 2,771 2251 0.006 60
Top States for MUIRHEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 271 6564 0.001 13
California 190 12200 0.001 6
Mississippi 184 1967 0.006 65
Michigan 183 6134 0.002 18
Florida 120 13527 0.001 8
Top States for MUIRHEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 184 1967 0.006 65
Wyoming 17 3740 0.003 34
Nebraska 55 4186 0.003 32
Colorado 80 6348 0.002 19
Michigan 183 6134 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of MUIRHEAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 159 7.25
White (Hispanic) 34 1.55
Mixed Race 28 1.28
White (Caucasian) 1,955 89.19
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 MUIRHEAD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MUIRHEAD in historical publications

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

Similar names to MUIRHEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MUIRHEAD.

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 MUIRHEAD

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