The RAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,097	3249	0.004	37
United States (1880 census)	3,623	1693	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+6474	-1556	-0.003	-35
Other Countries
Australia	305	5135	0.002	19
United Kingdom	1,461	3849	0.003	32

Top States for RAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	947	3205	0.003	28
New York	823	2222	0.004	43
Florida	677	2974	0.004	42
Maine	569	395	0.045	446
Texas	561	3903	0.003	27
Top States for RAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	569	395	0.045	446
New Hampshire	289	635	0.023	234
Vermont	71	1538	0.012	117
Massachusetts	557	1606	0.009	88
Connecticut	253	1700	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of RAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	242	2.4
Mixed Race	147	1.46
Asian/Pacific	82	0.81
Native American/Alaskan	33	0.33
White (Caucasian)	8,422	83.41
Black/African American	1,171	11.6

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

Similar names to RAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAND.

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.