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The BIRKELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 771 28994 0 3
United States (1880 census) 5 98519 0 0
Change since 1880 +766 +69525 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 6 130616 0 0
United Kingdom 10 30568 0 0
Top States for BIRKELAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 232 2508 0.005 47
Washington 77 8636 0.001 13
South Dakota 62 1551 0.008 82
Montana 46 2470 0.005 51
North Dakota 39 2528 0.006 61
Top States for BIRKELAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 62 1551 0.008 82
North Dakota 39 2528 0.006 61
Montana 46 2470 0.005 51
Minnesota 232 2508 0.005 47
Utah 31 6618 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of BIRKELAND

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 BIRKELAND 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 BIRKELAND 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 BIRKELAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 744 96.5
White (Hispanic) 8 1.04
Mixed Race 7 0.91
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.65
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 BIRKELAND surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BIRKELAND in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BIRKELAND.

Similar names to BIRKELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRKELAND.

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 BIRKELAND

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