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The HINKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,136 7428 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 2,071 2891 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +2065 -4537 -0.002 -26
Other Countries
Australia 481 3324 0.003 29
United Kingdom 596 7818 0.001 13
Top States for HINKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 434 600 0.034 340
Michigan 422 2878 0.004 42
New York 353 5748 0.002 19
California 318 8712 0.001 9
Florida 219 8891 0.001 14
Top States for HINKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 434 600 0.034 340
Vermont 27 3795 0.004 44
Michigan 422 2878 0.004 42
Idaho 48 3980 0.004 37
New Hampshire 42 4194 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 HINKLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HINKLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HINKLEY in Maine than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HINKLEY by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HINKLEY

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 HINKLEY 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 HINKLEY 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 HINKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 51 1.23
Mixed Race 31 0.75
Black/African American 27 0.65
Asian/Pacific 21 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.41
White (Caucasian) 3,989 96.45

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

Meaning of HINKLEY in historical publications

HINKLEY. See Hinckley.

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 HINKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HINKLEY.

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 HINKLEY

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