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The RAINFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 729 30292 0 3
United States (1880 census) 48 50220 0 1
Change since 1880 +681 +19928 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 160 9253 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,393 3994 0.003 30
Top States for RAINFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 127 13062 0.001 7
Florida 106 14301 0.001 7
New Jersey 64 13269 0.001 8
Indiana 56 10799 0.001 9
Illinois 47 24178 0.000 4
Top States for RAINFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 14 8332 0.002 19
Idaho 16 9562 0.001 12
Nevada 21 9455 0.001 11
Indiana 56 10799 0.001 9
New Jersey 64 13269 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of RAINFORD

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 RAINFORD 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 RAINFORD 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 RAINFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 418 57.34
Black/African American 280 38.41
Mixed Race 17 2.33
White (Hispanic) 6 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of RAINFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAINFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAINFORD.

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 RAINFORD

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