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The REDDING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,264 2187 0.006 57
United States (1880 census) 3,632 1691 0.007 73
Change since 1880 +11632 -496 -0.001 -16
Other Countries
Australia 496 3244 0.003 30
United Kingdom 1,645 3470 0.004 36
Top States for REDDING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 1,380 844 0.017 169
Florida 1,329 1652 0.008 83
California 1,135 2972 0.003 34
Texas 1,115 2284 0.005 53
Pennsylvania 977 1624 0.008 80
Top States for REDDING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 1,380 844 0.017 169
Wyoming 62 1002 0.013 126
South Carolina 390 1783 0.010 97
Maryland 514 1270 0.010 97
Oklahoma 314 1628 0.009 91

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

Classification and Origin of REDDING

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 REDDING 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 REDDING 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 REDDING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 259 1.7
Mixed Race 218 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 85 0.56
Asian/Pacific 41 0.27
White (Caucasian) 11,047 72.37
Black/African American 3,611 23.66

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

Meaning of REDDING in historical publications

REDDING. L From Reading, co. Berks, so pronounced. 2. From Redding, a village in Stirlingshire.

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 REDDING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REDDING.

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 REDDING

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