Butterford Surname

6,360,413th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Northern Ireland
Highest density in:
Northern Ireland

Butterford Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Butterford Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Northern Ireland71:263,57711,625
England11:55,718,059489,080
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England201:1,218,76844,985

Butterford Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Butterford Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Butterford is more frequently found in Northern Ireland than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Butterford? popularity and diffusion

Butterford is the 6,360,413th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 89 percent of Butterford are found; 89 percent are found in Northern Europe and 89 percent are found in British Isles.

The last name Butterford is most common in Northern Ireland, where it is held by 7 people, or 1 in 263,577. In Northern Ireland it is primarily concentrated in: Ulster, where 100 percent are found. Barring Northern Ireland this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 11 percent are found and The United States, where 11 percent are found.

Butterford Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Butterford has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Butterford surname fell 95 percent between 1881 and 2014.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Butterford
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