The OXFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,560	6809	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	889	6027	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+3671	-782	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	302	5172	0.002	18
United Kingdom	1,005	5246	0.002	22

Top States for OXFORD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	518	4228	0.002	25
California	470	6046	0.001	14
Georgia	388	2520	0.005	47
Florida	258	7560	0.002	16
Oklahoma	244	1965	0.007	71
Top States for OXFORD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	210	1730	0.008	79
Oklahoma	244	1965	0.007	71
Georgia	388	2520	0.005	47
Alaska	26	3658	0.004	41
Washington	235	3202	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of OXFORD

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 OXFORD 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 OXFORD 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 OXFORD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	221	4.85
Mixed Race	82	1.8
White (Hispanic)	74	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	57	1.25
Asian/Pacific	21	0.46
White (Caucasian)	4,105	90.02

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

Meaning of OXFORD in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Oxford, in England, on the Isis, the seat of the celebrated university founded in 806; from Ox, Anglo-Saxon, water, corrupted by the Angles or Danes from the Gaelic uisge or isk, and ford, a pass or way--the ford across the Isis. Bailey derives it from Oxen-ford, "the ford of the oxen," like the Greek Bosphorus, or from the river Ouse, and ford. The name of the river Ouse is derived from uisge, water.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

OXFORD. The city.

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 OXFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OXFORD.

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.