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The HIGA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,925 7814 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) -1 112667 0 0
Change since 1880 +3926 +104853 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 5 138214 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34284 0 0
Top States for HIGA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 2,053 14 0.169 1,695
California 1,098 3589 0.003 32
Washington 132 7258 0.002 22
Texas 94 19868 0.000 5
Nevada 64 4836 0.003 32
Top States for HIGA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 2,053 14 0.169 1,695
California 1,098 3589 0.003 32
Nevada 64 4836 0.003 32
Washington 132 7258 0.002 22
Colorado 51 13344 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of HIGA

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Japan

Language of origin: Japanese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HIGA 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.

Ethnic distribution of HIGA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 302 7.69
White (Caucasian) 268 6.83
White (Hispanic) 237 6.04
Black/African American 18 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.25
Asian/Pacific 3,090 78.73

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

Meaning of HIGA in historical publications

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

Similar names to HIGA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGA.

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 HIGA

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