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The HANKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,138 1561 0.008 78
United States (1880 census) 3,186 1916 0.006 64
Change since 1880 +17952 +355 +0.002 +14
Other Countries
Australia 126 11635 0.001 8
United Kingdom 793 6312 0.002 17
Top States for HANKINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,814 1545 0.009 87
California 1,374 2607 0.004 41
Tennessee 1,112 889 0.020 195
Missouri 1,081 692 0.019 193
Illinois 995 1428 0.008 80
Top States for HANKINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 994 493 0.035 349
Arkansas 884 425 0.033 331
Oklahoma 767 681 0.022 222
Tennessee 1,112 889 0.020 195
Missouri 1,081 692 0.019 193

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

Classification and Origin of HANKINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 372 1.76
White (Hispanic) 323 1.53
Native American/Alaskan 140 0.66
Asian/Pacific 85 0.4
White (Caucasian) 16,113 76.23
Black/African American 4,105 19.42

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

Meaning of HANKINS in historical publications

HAKKIN. HANKINS. A Cheshire nickname for Randolph, as in the ancient family of Manwaring and many others. Hanks, Hankin, and Hankinson are modifxcations of it.

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 HANKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANKINS.

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 HANKINS

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