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The HATCHETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,334 5942 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 785 6655 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +4549 +713 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 105 13693 0.001 6
United Kingdom 476 9170 0.001 10
Top States for HATCHETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 516 4329 0.002 25
Tennessee 380 2283 0.007 67
Georgia 371 2690 0.005 45
Illinois 366 3679 0.003 29
Alabama 357 1999 0.008 80
Top States for HATCHETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 357 1999 0.008 80
Kentucky 275 2097 0.007 68
Tennessee 380 2283 0.007 67
Mississippi 169 2297 0.006 59
Arkansas 155 2359 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of HATCHETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 112 2.1
White (Hispanic) 81 1.52
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.36
Asian/Pacific 15 0.28
Black/African American 2,767 51.87
White (Caucasian) 2,340 43.87

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

Meaning of HATCHETT in historical publications

HATCHETT. Voltaire mentions _a grand vizier of Turkey called Alep Baltagi, so named from balta which signifies a hatchet— iht being the Turkish designation of the .slaves who cut wood for the princes of Ottoman blood. " Ce vizir avait ete baltagi dans sa jeunesse, et en avait toujours reteuu le nom, selon la coutume des Turcs, que prennent sans rougir le nom de leur premiere profession, ou celle de leur pcre, ou du lieu de leur naissance." Voltaire, Charles XII. Our English family may also have deri-ed their name from the use of the instrument. Hachet without prefix is found in H.R.

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 HATCHETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HATCHETT.

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 HATCHETT

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