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The PLAYFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 365 53191 0 1
United States (1880 census) 169 21797 0 3
Change since 1880 +196 -31394 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 291 5352 0.002 18
United Kingdom 961 5427 0.002 21
Top States for PLAYFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 64 19813 0.001 6
New York 62 29455 0.000 3
Florida 43 35527 0.000 3
California 30 67567 0.000 1
Arizona 29 17967 0.001 6
Top States for PLAYFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 64 19813 0.001 6
Arizona 29 17967 0.001 6
South Carolina 14 19582 0.000 3
New York 62 29455 0.000 3
Nevada 6 41839 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PLAYFORD

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 PLAYFORD 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 PLAYFORD 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 PLAYFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 352 96.44
Mixed Race 6 1.64
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PLAYFORD in historical publications

PLAYFORD. A parish In Suffolk.

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 PLAYFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLAYFORD.

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 PLAYFORD

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