The STRICKLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	65,814	456	0.024	244
United States (1880 census)	10,023	603	0.02	200
Change since 1880	+55791	+147	+0.004	+44
Other Countries
Australia	1,113	1490	0.007	68
United Kingdom	2,816	2200	0.006	61

Top States for STRICKLAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	8,707	80	0.106	1,064
North Carolina	8,241	90	0.102	1,024
Florida	7,334	230	0.046	459
Texas	4,995	498	0.024	240
Alabama	4,395	126	0.099	988
Top States for STRICKLAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	8,707	80	0.106	1,064
North Carolina	8,241	90	0.102	1,024
Alabama	4,395	126	0.099	988
South Carolina	3,726	134	0.093	929
Mississippi	2,158	177	0.076	759

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

Classification and Origin of STRICKLAND

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 STRICKLAND 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 STRICKLAND 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 STRICKLAND in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	869	1.32
Asian/Pacific	237	0.36
White (Caucasian)	51,657	78.49
Black/African American	10,622	16.14
Mixed Race	1,007	1.53
Native American/Alaskan	1,422	2.16

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

Meaning of STRICKLAND in historical publications

This name came from Strick-land or Stirkland, that is, "the pasture ground of young cattle," called stirks or steers, in the parish of Moreland, Westmoreland Co., England, where the family once had considerable possessions.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

STRICKLAND. "Descended from Walter de Stirkland, Knight, so called from the pasture ground of the j'ouug cattle called stirlis or steers, in the parish of Morland, in the county of Vestmoreland, who was living in the reign of Henry III." Shirley's No'hle and Gentle Men.

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 STRICKLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STRICKLAND.

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.