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The HARTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,843 3332 0.004 36
United States (1880 census) 3,339 1839 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +6504 -1493 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 28 40763 0 2
United Kingdom 193 16847 0 4
Top States for HARTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,037 1285 0.009 91
California 894 3385 0.003 26
Pennsylvania 686 2193 0.006 56
Indiana 671 1089 0.011 110
New York 603 3196 0.003 32
Top States for HARTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 671 1089 0.011 110
South Dakota 74 1353 0.010 98
Iowa 273 1262 0.009 93
Ohio 1,037 1285 0.009 91
Missouri 510 1396 0.009 91

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

Classification and Origin of HARTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 150 1.52
Mixed Race 105 1.07
Black/African American 51 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 50 0.51
Asian/Pacific 39 0.4
White (Caucasian) 9,448 95.99

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

Meaning of HARTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARTER.

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 HARTER

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