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The HENSHAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,712 6623 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,582 3661 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +3130 -2962 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 538 3001 0.003 33
United Kingdom 3,613 1733 0.008 79
Top States for HENSHAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 478 2040 0.007 68
California 331 8522 0.001 10
New York 298 6868 0.002 16
Florida 284 7186 0.002 18
Texas 264 7472 0.001 13
Top States for HENSHAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 478 2040 0.007 68
Oklahoma 203 2481 0.006 59
Oregon 141 3249 0.004 41
Washington 184 4246 0.003 31
Delaware 22 6471 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of HENSHAW

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 HENSHAW 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 HENSHAW 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 HENSHAW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 147 3.12
Mixed Race 74 1.57
Native American/Alaskan 72 1.53
White (Hispanic) 58 1.23
Asian/Pacific 26 0.55
White (Caucasian) 4,335 92

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

Meaning of HENSHAW in historical publications

HENSHAW. See Hanshaw. A township in Xorthumberland.

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 HENSHAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HENSHAW.

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 HENSHAW

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