Last Name REDHEAD

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Meaning	Nickname: With the red head. Similar to names Whitehead, Silverlock, Brownbeard, etc. It is quite possible the name is local from some red-colored headland of rockor soil. There are such spots so called in Forfarshire and Orkney. But one thing is certain, Yorkshire is the source of the family of Redheads that have drifted westwards into the Furness district of North Lancashire. No prefix is found, pointing distinctly to a nickname origin.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	36,572 (2000 US census)	29,775 (1990 US census)

Count	577 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

55.81%, or 322 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
31.89%, or 184 total occurrences, as black,
1.39%, or 8 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
4.51%, or 26 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.95%, or 17 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.47%, or 20 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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