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The most commonly-observed ancestry found in people with the surname Saunders is British & Irish, which comprises 51.9% of all ancestry found in people with the surname. The next two most common ancestries are French & German (20.2%) and Nigerian (4.0%).
In the United States, the name Saunders is the 421 st most popular surname with an estimated 67,149 people with that name. 1 However, in Canada, the name Saunders is ranked the 256 th most popular surname with an estimated 16,107 people with that name.
The Saunders family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Saunders families were found in United Kingdom in 1891. In 1891 there were 5,671 Saunders families living in London. This was about 20% of all the recorded Saunders's in United Kingdom.
How Common Is The Last Name Saunders? popularity and diffusion. This last name is the 2,684 th most frequently held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 35,066 people. It is primarily found in The Americas, where 56 percent of Saunders live; 52 percent live in North America and 52 percent live in Anglo-North America.
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Surname statistics for Saunders. There are approximately 63,026 people named Saunders in the UK. That makes it the 121th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 998 are named Saunders. Frequency Comparisons.
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