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The TRAFFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 520 39756 0 2
United States (1880 census) 251 16319 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +269 -23437 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 158 9368 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,482 3799 0.003 32
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 TRAFFORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 501 96.35
White (Hispanic) 12 2.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of TRAFFORD in historical publications

TRAFFORD. An estate in the parish of Eccles, CO. Lancaster, where the ancestors of the family are said to have been established before the Norman Conquest. The pedigree in Baines's Lancashire deduces them from Ralph de Trafford, who died about 1050. Tliis Ralpli may have been a real personage, and an ancestor of the Traffords, but he was certainly no De Traiford liefore the Conquest. \Ir. Shirley remarks that " on the whole, it may be assumed that the antiquity of this family is exaggerated, though the name no doubt Avas derived from the locality at an early period." Noble 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 TRAFFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TRAFFORD.

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 TRAFFORD

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