Last Name FREELAND

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Freeland. Frelond occures in every early record without prefix. Also, local, 'of Free-land,' a parish in the diocese of Oxford.

Origin	English, Irish, Falkland

Rank	3,859 (2000 US census)	4,801 (1990 US census)

Count	8,455 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

84.81%, or 7171 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.33%, or 873 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 31 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.63%, or 138 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.54%, or 130 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.32%, or 112 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Ukrainian middle names

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