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The HICKSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,345 5929 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,367 4167 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +3978 -1762 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 753 2159 0.005 46
United Kingdom 2,434 2509 0.005 53
Top States for HICKSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 566 1318 0.014 141
Florida 540 4204 0.003 34
Texas 459 5061 0.002 22
Georgia 434 2486 0.005 53
New York 340 6370 0.002 18
Top States for HICKSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 566 1318 0.014 141
Georgia 434 2486 0.005 53
Washington DC 27 2451 0.005 47
Tennessee 198 4024 0.003 35
Florida 540 4204 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of HICKSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 85 1.59
White (Hispanic) 70 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.69
Asian/Pacific 14 0.26
Black/African American 2,385 44.62
White (Caucasian) 2,754 51.52

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

Meaning of HICKSON in historical publications

HICKSON. See Isaac.

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 HICKSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HICKSON.

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 HICKSON

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