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The HAIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,231 3959 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 2,469 2469 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +5762 -1490 -0.002 -18
Other Countries
Australia 521 3090 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,304 4229 0.003 28
Top States for HAIR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 893 824 0.022 223
North Carolina 846 1610 0.011 105
Texas 779 3312 0.004 37
Florida 655 3527 0.004 41
California 558 5720 0.002 16
Top States for HAIR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 893 824 0.022 223
North Carolina 846 1610 0.011 105
Utah 217 1580 0.010 97
Oklahoma 326 1640 0.009 94
Washington DC 29 2342 0.005 51

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of HAIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAIR 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 HAIR 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 HAIR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 159 1.93
White (Hispanic) 146 1.77
Mixed Race 137 1.66
Asian/Pacific 69 0.84
White (Caucasian) 6,693 81.31
Black/African American 1,027 12.48

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

Meaning of HAIR in historical publications

HAIR. A coiTuption of heir, the eldest son.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HAIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAIR.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HAIR

The following words are slight variants of HAIR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.