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The SAUNDERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 67,210 439 0.025 249
United States (1880 census) 17,149 323 0.034 343
Change since 1880 +50061 -116 -0.009 -94
Other Countries
Australia 8,502 136 0.052 520
United Kingdom 37,596 119 0.082 819
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.

Classification and Origin of SAUNDERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 504 0.75
Asian/Pacific 296 0.44
White (Caucasian) 46,825 69.67
Black/African American 17,199 25.59
Mixed Race 1,277 1.9
White (Hispanic) 1,109 1.65

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

Meaning of SAUNDERS in historical publications

SAUNDERS. L One of the derivatives of Alexander. 2. The family of this name in CO. Wicklow, pretend that their ancestor came into England about the year 1270, and that he sprang " from Robert, Lordof lunspruck, who was second brother of Eodolph, Count of ITapsburgh, and subsequently Emperor." The founder of the family in Ireland was a follower of Cromwell. B.L.G.

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 SAUNDERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAUNDERS.

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 SAUNDERS

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