The ARCHIBALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,794	4214	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	1,788	3304	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+6006	-910	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	916	1793	0.006	56
United Kingdom	3,510	1784	0.008	76

Top States for ARCHIBALD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	671	4299	0.002	20
New York	596	3202	0.003	31
Utah	510	528	0.023	228
Florida	447	4484	0.003	28
Texas	348	5675	0.002	17
Top States for ARCHIBALD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	510	528	0.023	228
Idaho	252	634	0.019	195
Wyoming	39	1532	0.008	79
Maine	94	2309	0.007	74
New Hampshire	88	2150	0.007	71

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

Classification and Origin of ARCHIBALD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	190	2.44
Mixed Race	120	1.54
Asian/Pacific	53	0.68
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.26
White (Caucasian)	5,974	76.65
Black/African American	1,437	18.44

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

Similar names to ARCHIBALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARCHIBALD.

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.