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The HAMLET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,094 9641 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,167 4789 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +1927 -4852 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 110 13170 0.001 7
United Kingdom 513 8676 0.001 11
Top States for HAMLET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 292 3186 0.004 41
Tennessee 268 3113 0.005 47
North Carolina 215 4462 0.003 27
New York 189 10921 0.001 10
California 169 15596 0.000 5
Top States for HAMLET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 268 3113 0.005 47
Virginia 292 3186 0.004 41
Kentucky 137 3726 0.003 34
North Carolina 215 4462 0.003 27
Maryland 137 4606 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of HAMLET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 996 32.19
White (Hispanic) 70 2.26
Mixed Race 65 2.1
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.36
Asian/Pacific 6 0.19
White (Caucasian) 1,946 62.9

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

Meaning of HAMLET in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HAMLET.

Similar names to HAMLET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMLET.

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 HAMLET

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