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The OVERLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,116 21742 0 4
United States (1880 census) 105 30434 0 2
Change since 1880 +1011 +8692 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 40 30498 0 2
United Kingdom 141 20252 0 3
Top States for OVERLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 208 3083 0.004 42
Washington 149 4834 0.003 25
California 99 22651 0.000 3
Wisconsin 77 11187 0.001 14
Texas 54 24273 0.000 3
Top States for OVERLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 45 2253 0.007 70
Minnesota 208 3083 0.004 42
South Dakota 20 6541 0.003 26
Washington 149 4834 0.003 25
Montana 20 7001 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of OVERLAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 37 3.32
White (Hispanic) 24 2.15
Black/African American 13 1.16
Asian/Pacific 9 0.81
Mixed Race 8 0.72
White (Caucasian) 1,025 91.85

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

Meaning of OVERLAND in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERLAND.

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 OVERLAND

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