The OLIPHANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,448	5813	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,092	5080	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+4356	-733	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	165	8996	0.001	10
United Kingdom	1,091	4907	0.002	24

Top States for OLIPHANT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	577	3974	0.003	28
California	459	6292	0.001	14
Florida	280	7165	0.002	18
North Carolina	273	3721	0.003	34
Missouri	237	3280	0.004	42
Top States for OLIPHANT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	98	1477	0.013	125
Utah	153	2003	0.007	69
Washington DC	31	2034	0.005	54
Kansas	121	2821	0.005	45
Oklahoma	151	3189	0.004	44

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

Classification and Origin of OLIPHANT

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 OLIPHANT 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 OLIPHANT 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 OLIPHANT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	80	1.47
White (Hispanic)	65	1.19
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.51
Asian/Pacific	16	0.29
White (Caucasian)	3,907	71.71
Black/African American	1,352	24.82

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

Similar names to OLIPHANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLIPHANT.

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.