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The HOPSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,050 2748 0.004 45
United States (1880 census) 2,331 2611 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +9719 -137 -0.001 -2
Other Countries
Australia 218 6970 0.001 13
United Kingdom 1,296 4248 0.003 28
Top States for HOPSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,399 1963 0.007 67
Tennessee 1,161 851 0.020 204
California 679 4815 0.002 20
Mississippi 595 855 0.021 209
Illinois 579 2522 0.005 47
Top States for HOPSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 595 855 0.021 209
Tennessee 1,161 851 0.020 204
Alaska 109 801 0.017 174
Arkansas 315 1288 0.012 118
Alabama 521 1564 0.012 117

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

Classification and Origin of HOPSON

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 HOPSON 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 HOPSON 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 HOPSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 247 2.05
Native American/Alaskan 195 1.62
White (Hispanic) 147 1.22
Asian/Pacific 43 0.36
White (Caucasian) 6,720 55.77
Black/African American 4,698 38.99

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

Meaning of HOPSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOPSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOPSON.

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 HOPSON

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