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The ROUND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,144 21335 0 4
United States (1880 census) 497 9715 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +647 -11620 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 444 3578 0.003 27
United Kingdom 4,077 1541 0.009 89
Top States for ROUND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 113 19118 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 85 15701 0.001 7
Texas 84 16575 0.000 4
Ohio 64 18023 0.001 6
Michigan 61 18838 0.001 6
Top States for ROUND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 34 4301 0.003 32
Montana 21 6297 0.002 23
Wyoming 7 9273 0.001 14
Maine 15 8895 0.001 12
Mississippi 25 7675 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of ROUND

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 ROUND 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 ROUND 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 ROUND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 66 5.77
White (Hispanic) 18 1.57
Mixed Race 11 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.96
Asian/Pacific 6 0.52
White (Caucasian) 1,032 90.21

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

Meaning of ROUND in historical publications

ROUND. In some places, the open space anciently used for the inhuman sport of bull-baiting is still called 'the Eound;' and residence near such a spot would originate the surname.

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 ROUND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROUND.

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 ROUND

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