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The PORTERFIELD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,611 4878 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,345 4226 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +5266 -652 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 5 153910 0 0
United Kingdom 242 14654 0.001 5
Top States for PORTERFIELD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 636 2387 0.005 52
Texas 580 3856 0.003 28
California 426 6528 0.001 13
Virginia 413 2221 0.006 58
North Carolina 353 3037 0.004 44
Top States for PORTERFIELD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 139 1833 0.008 77
Arkansas 196 1853 0.007 73
Alabama 286 2309 0.006 64
South Carolina 251 2424 0.006 63
Virginia 413 2221 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of PORTERFIELD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 980 14.82
Mixed Race 91 1.38
White (Hispanic) 82 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.38
Asian/Pacific 22 0.33
White (Caucasian) 5,411 81.85

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

Meaning of PORTERFIELD in historical publications

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

Similar names to PORTERFIELD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTERFIELD.

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 PORTERFIELD

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