The HAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,860	10323	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,046	5253	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+1814	-5070	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	11	81335	0	1
United Kingdom	171	18010	0	4

Top States for HAIL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	558	6233	0.003	27
California	253	16873	0.001	7
Ohio	229	10219	0.002	20
Kentucky	227	3725	0.006	56
Oklahoma	214	3765	0.006	62
Top States for HAIL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	214	3765	0.006	62
Kentucky	227	3725	0.006	56
Idaho	43	7400	0.003	33
Texas	558	6233	0.003	27
New Mexico	43	6282	0.002	24

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HAIL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HAIL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HAIL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HAIL by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HAIL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HAIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HAIL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	410	14.34
Native American/Alaskan	51	1.78
White (Hispanic)	51	1.78
Mixed Race	48	1.68
Asian/Pacific	17	0.59
White (Caucasian)	2,283	79.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HAIL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to HAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAIL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.