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The HANSELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,677 15921 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 574 8640 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1103 -7281 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 258 5985 0.002 16
United Kingdom 721 6772 0.002 16
Top States for HANSELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 282 5016 0.002 23
California 168 13636 0.000 5
Florida 137 12104 0.001 9
New Jersey 99 9223 0.001 12
Ohio 64 18185 0.001 6
Top States for HANSELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 282 5016 0.002 23
Alaska 14 6454 0.002 22
Oregon 61 6551 0.002 18
Iowa 41 10284 0.001 14
North Dakota 8 12020 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of HANSELL

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 HANSELL 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 HANSELL 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 HANSELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 114 6.8
White (Hispanic) 36 2.15
Asian/Pacific 23 1.37
Mixed Race 16 0.95
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.95
White (Caucasian) 1,472 87.78

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

Meaning of HANSELL in historical publications

HANSELL. A corruption of Anselra, the personal name.

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 HANSELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANSELL.

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 HANSELL

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