The OLMSTEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,859	4181	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	2,883	2117	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+4976	-2064	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	1	389922	0	0
United Kingdom	3	34478	0	0

Top States for OLMSTEAD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	741	2493	0.004	39
California	717	4038	0.002	21
Michigan	682	1590	0.007	69
Washington	426	1666	0.007	72
Florida	379	5112	0.002	24
Top States for OLMSTEAD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	96	1090	0.016	158
Alaska	64	1190	0.010	102
North Dakota	65	1345	0.010	101
Idaho	98	1798	0.008	76
Washington	426	1666	0.007	72

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

Classification and Origin of OLMSTEAD

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OLMSTEAD 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.

Ethnic distribution of OLMSTEAD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	132	1.68
Mixed Race	92	1.17
Black/African American	51	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	42	0.53
Asian/Pacific	27	0.34
White (Caucasian)	7,515	95.62

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

Similar names to OLMSTEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLMSTEAD.

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.