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The ORMEROD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 420 47485 0 2
United States (1880 census) 34 59956 0 1
Change since 1880 +386 +12471 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 262 5882 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,949 3030 0.004 42
Top States for ORMEROD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 50 41063 0.000 1
Florida 36 40276 0.000 2
New York 36 47008 0.000 2
Kentucky 34 9339 0.001 8
Massachusetts 34 21310 0.001 5
Top States for ORMEROD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 22 6699 0.002 21
Kentucky 34 9339 0.001 8
Wyoming 3 19546 0.001 6
New Mexico 10 13881 0.001 5
Massachusetts 34 21310 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of ORMEROD

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 ORMEROD 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 ORMEROD 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 ORMEROD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 406 96.67
White (Hispanic) 7 1.67
Mixed Race 5 1.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ORMEROD in historical publications

ORMEROD. Seethe observations under Eoyd and Eodd. " The first syllable Ornie is a common Saxon and Norman name; the second syllable Rode, (pronounced Eoyde in Yorkshire) is correctly explained by Dr. Whitaker (Hist, of Whallcy) as the preterite of "rid," — a ridding, clearing, or essart — locus exsevtus. It occurs in the neighbourhood of English forests and chases from Yorkshire to Devonshire. - - - - The import of the name, then, is the Rode of Orme, the land reclaimed by him or his predecessors, from the forest. - - - The local name was assumed in or before tlie reign of Henry III." Ormerod is in the parish of Whalley, co. Lancaster. — Ormerod's ParcntaUa.

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 ORMEROD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORMEROD.

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 ORMEROD

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