The SOUTHARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,888	3672	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	2,662	2298	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+6226	-1374	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	7	119016	0	0
United Kingdom	247	14440	0.001	5

Top States for SOUTHARD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	660	1840	0.008	82
Texas	632	3669	0.003	30
New York	605	3306	0.003	32
California	572	5143	0.002	17
Florida	547	3864	0.003	34
Top States for SOUTHARD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	149	1647	0.012	117
Missouri	471	1575	0.008	84
North Carolina	660	1840	0.008	82
Oklahoma	234	2106	0.007	68
Kentucky	274	2095	0.007	68

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of SOUTHARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	147	1.65
White (Hispanic)	133	1.5
Mixed Race	108	1.22
Native American/Alaskan	78	0.88
Asian/Pacific	46	0.52
White (Caucasian)	8,376	94.24

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

Similar names to SOUTHARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOUTHARD.

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.