Scarbourough Surname

3,798,600th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 27 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Scotland

Scarbourough Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Scarbourough Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States261:13,940,728505,428
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England41:6,093,842135,151
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States141:3,587,049158,810

Scarbourough Last Name Facts

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

The surname Scarbourough is more commonly found in The United States than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Scarbourough click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Scarbourough? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,798,600th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. Scarbourough occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Scarbourough live; 96 percent live in North America and 96 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The last name is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 26 people, or 1 in 13,940,728. In The United States Scarbourough is most frequent in: North Carolina, where 19 percent are found, Florida, where 8 percent are found and Georgia, where 8 percent are found. Aside from The United States this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in Scotland, where 4 percent are found.

Scarbourough Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Scarbourough has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 186 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Scarbourough Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Scarbourough surname are 42.12% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 88.89% registered with the political party.

Scarbourough earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 15.52% more than the national average, earning $49,844 USD per year.

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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 Scarbourough
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