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The SARSFIELD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 757 29421 0 3
United States (1880 census) 140 24851 0 3
Change since 1880 +617 -4570 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 23 47125 0 1
United Kingdom 489 8987 0.001 11
Top States for SARSFIELD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 107 12495 0.001 9
Massachusetts 83 8711 0.001 13
New York 66 25099 0.000 3
Florida 49 28980 0.000 3
California 45 42980 0.000 1
Top States for SARSFIELD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 17 8452 0.001 14
Massachusetts 83 8711 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 107 12495 0.001 9
Iowa 20 18940 0.001 7
Louisiana 30 12374 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of SARSFIELD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 729 96.3
Mixed Race 15 1.98
White (Hispanic) 12 1.59
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of SARSFIELD in historical publications

SARSFIELD. The first of the family of Sarsfield who settled in Ireland, is said to have been Thomas de S., " chief bannerbearer" to King Henry IL, A.D. 1172. The name is unquestionably English, and local.

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 SARSFIELD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SARSFIELD.

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 SARSFIELD

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