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The RELF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 502 40987 0 2
United States (1880 census) 145 24305 0 3
Change since 1880 +357 -16682 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 304 5147 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,137 4730 0.002 25
Top States for RELF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 71 27035 0.000 2
New York 50 30506 0.000 3
Alabama 30 9264 0.001 7
Texas 30 33769 0.000 1
Arizona 28 15642 0.001 5
Top States for RELF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 15 7820 0.002 20
Alabama 30 9264 0.001 7
Oklahoma 23 12861 0.001 7
Montana 5 22987 0.001 6
Arizona 28 15642 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of RELF

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 273 54.38
Black/African American 205 40.84
Mixed Race 12 2.39
White (Hispanic) 7 1.39
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 RELF surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RELF in historical publications

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

Similar names to RELF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RELF.

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 RELF

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