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The CUNLIFFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 768 29069 0 3
United States (1880 census) 147 24041 0 3
Change since 1880 +621 -5028 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 256 6019 0.002 16
United Kingdom 4,362 1444 0.009 95
Top States for CUNLIFFE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 72 20338 0.001 6
California 70 32484 0.000 2
New York 59 31376 0.000 3
Florida 54 29785 0.000 3
New Jersey 47 21427 0.001 6
Top States for CUNLIFFE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 23 6814 0.002 18
Utah 34 6807 0.002 15
Connecticut 34 14190 0.001 10
Idaho 11 15167 0.001 9
New Hampshire 10 15444 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of CUNLIFFE

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 CUNLIFFE 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 CUNLIFFE 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 CUNLIFFE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 724 94.27
White (Hispanic) 15 1.95
Mixed Race 11 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 10 1.3
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CUNLIFFE in historical publications

CUNLIFFE. Local— the last syllable standing for cliffe, the same as in Ilinchliffe, Shirtliffe, &c. The Encycl. Herald, has Cunliff or Concliffe of Lancashire.

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 CUNLIFFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CUNLIFFE.

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 CUNLIFFE

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