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The HALSTEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,713 3740 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,204 2742 0.004 44
Change since 1880 +6509 -998 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 292 5336 0.002 18
United Kingdom 2,195 2733 0.005 48
Top States for HALSTEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 789 2428 0.004 42
California 699 4275 0.002 21
West Virginia 650 396 0.036 359
Florida 617 3384 0.004 39
Michigan 549 2091 0.006 55
Top States for HALSTEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 650 396 0.036 359
Oregon 240 1810 0.007 70
Wyoming 34 1863 0.007 69
Alaska 40 2185 0.006 64
Iowa 174 2245 0.006 59

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

Classification and Origin of HALSTEAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 246 2.82
White (Hispanic) 149 1.71
Mixed Race 109 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 44 0.5
Asian/Pacific 42 0.48
White (Caucasian) 8,123 93.23

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

Meaning of HALSTEAD in historical publications

(origin: Local) A town in Essex, England, from Hals, as given above, and sted, a place. Holsted, a town in North Jutland, that is, the low place; Hol, Dutch, hollow, and stead, a place: a house or town in a hollow place.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to HALSTEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALSTEAD.

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 HALSTEAD

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