The HOUGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,090	2208	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	5,122	1195	0.01	102
Change since 1880	+9968	-1013	-0.004	-46
Other Countries
Australia	1,252	1323	0.008	77
United Kingdom	6,885	908	0.015	150

Top States for HOUGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,159	1218	0.009	94
Florida	1,140	1804	0.007	71
California	880	3434	0.003	26
Michigan	853	1263	0.009	86
New York	849	2191	0.004	45
Top States for HOUGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	647	1009	0.016	161
Wyoming	47	1242	0.010	95
North Carolina	761	1588	0.009	95
Pennsylvania	1,159	1218	0.009	94
Vermont	56	1913	0.009	92

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

Classification and Origin of HOUGH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	217	1.44
Mixed Race	186	1.23
Asian/Pacific	109	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	100	0.66
White (Caucasian)	12,937	85.73
Black/African American	1,541	10.21

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

Similar names to HOUGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUGH.

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.