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The HANSFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,896 10212 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 608 8247 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +2288 -1965 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 684 2356 0.004 42
United Kingdom 1,938 3049 0.004 42
Top States for HANSFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 249 5954 0.002 22
Florida 242 8389 0.002 15
Georgia 205 4324 0.003 25
Kentucky 195 2776 0.005 48
Texas 181 10309 0.001 9
Top States for HANSFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 195 2776 0.005 48
West Virginia 56 3669 0.003 31
Washington DC 16 3741 0.003 28
Kansas 73 4881 0.003 27
Georgia 205 4324 0.003 25

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

Classification and Origin of HANSFORD

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 HANSFORD 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 HANSFORD 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 HANSFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 495 17.09
Mixed Race 49 1.69
White (Hispanic) 25 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.59
Asian/Pacific 7 0.24
White (Caucasian) 2,303 79.52

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

Meaning of HANSFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to HANSFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANSFORD.

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 HANSFORD

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