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The HARNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,199 6091 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 1,006 5426 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +4193 -665 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 41 29604 0 3
United Kingdom 794 6305 0.002 17
Top States for HARNESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 773 1180 0.014 136
Missouri 400 1880 0.007 71
Indiana 371 2149 0.006 61
California 357 7846 0.001 11
Arkansas 330 1119 0.012 123
Top States for HARNESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 773 1180 0.014 136
Arkansas 330 1119 0.012 123
Missouri 400 1880 0.007 71
Indiana 371 2149 0.006 61
Kentucky 194 2724 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of HARNESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 471 9.06
Mixed Race 104 2
White (Hispanic) 85 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.81
Asian/Pacific 16 0.31
White (Caucasian) 4,481 86.19

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

Meaning of HARNESS in historical publications

HARNESS. The old word for bodyarmour. Hence Lightharness, and the Fr. Beauharnois, or " fair harness."

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 HARNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARNESS.

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 HARNESS

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