The Census says that about 63 million surnames were recorded in 2010 with about 62 percent of them reported just once.

Us census name popularity search. Introduction to Census Records. The name of your relative or ancestor and hopefully. Girl names like Kathryn Jacqueline and Katherine have consistently been popular but girls names like Brittany Madison and Ashley have had so many babies in just a few years that they made the list.

After a little searching I was able to find data from the 1990 US census on the frequency of male and female first names and on surnames. There are 1050 people named James Bond 110 people named Harry Potter 470. Often a person who has both a first and middle name will appear with his first name in one census and his middle name in another census.

You can start your Census records search with only. Some names are more common than others. In fact for the last 20 years the three most commons surnames found in the census are.

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The Census Bureau receives numerous requests to supply information on name frequency. The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790 and a census has been taken every ten years since. Sometimes the individuals were listed with only the initials of their first andor middle names so look for an initial in the index.