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- The majority of individuals with the Saunders surname identified as white, although this group saw a slight decrease of 3.27%.
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In The United States the number of people carrying the Saunders last name grew 541 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 195 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 255 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 184 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it grew 126 percent between 1901 and 2014.
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.
This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 83 percent of Saunders-White are found; 83 percent are found in North America and 83 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Saunders-White is most widespread in The United States, where it is borne by 10 people, or 1 in 36,245,893.
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Saunders is the 476th most popular name in Americabased on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Saunders surname appeared 69,943 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 24 people would have the surname Saunders. We can also compare 2010 data for Saunders to data fr...
The surname SAUNDERS is of English origin and dates back to the late 12th century. It is believed to be derived from the Old French name "Saunder" or "Saundre," which itself came from the Latin name "Alexander." The name was originally a nickname for someone with a ruddy or swarthy complexion, as the Latin name "Alexander" was sometimes associated ...
We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Saunders. The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups: 1. White only 2. Black only 3. American Indian and Alaskan Native ...
The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau. The history and meaning of the name Saunders was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts. If you have a correction or suggestion to improve the histo...
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