The HOPKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	94,603	289	0.035	351
United States (1880 census)	10,600	558	0.021	212
Change since 1880	+84003	+269	+0.014	+139
Other Countries
Australia	4,218	347	0.026	258
United Kingdom	24,291	216	0.053	529

Top States for HOPKINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,625	375	0.032	318
California	6,576	481	0.019	194
Florida	4,915	361	0.031	308
Ohio	4,428	258	0.039	390
North Carolina	3,956	269	0.049	491
Top States for HOPKINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	866	83	0.111	1,105
Maine	931	235	0.073	730
South Carolina	2,726	204	0.068	679
Rhode Island	645	129	0.062	615
Mississippi	1,696	237	0.060	596

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HOPKINS

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 HOPKINS 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 HOPKINS 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 HOPKINS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	776	0.82
Asian/Pacific	397	0.42
White (Caucasian)	71,482	75.56
Black/African American	19,185	20.28
Mixed Race	1,466	1.55
White (Hispanic)	1,296	1.37

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

Meaning of HOPKINS in historical publications

Little Robert, or the child of Robert. The same as Hobkins (which see).

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

HOPKINS. HOPKYNS. From Robert, through Hob, with the diminutive kin. The H.R. form is Hobekyn. A family of this name have possessed a farm at Swalclifl'e, CO. Oxon, from the XIII. cent., and nineteen successive proprietorsbore theChristian name of John. They believe themselves to be descended from a younger son of one of the three Sir JRflhci-t de Wykehams who were in succession owners of Swalcliffe, temp. John and Henry III. The arms too of Hopkyns appear to have been jiartly borrowed from those of AVykeham. Information of D. D. Hopkyns, Esq.

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 HOPKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOPKINS.

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.