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The HURSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 832 27313 0 3
United States (1880 census) 124 27222 0 2
Change since 1880 +708 -91 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 3 193077 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HURSTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 184 4889 0.002 22
Alabama 70 6584 0.002 16
Michigan 68 20785 0.001 7
Florida 58 30515 0.000 4
Ohio 47 28431 0.000 4
Top States for HURSTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 184 4889 0.002 22
Alabama 70 6584 0.002 16
Louisiana 42 11457 0.001 9
Arkansas 20 12053 0.001 7
Michigan 68 20785 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of HURSTON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HURSTON surname.

Ethnic distribution of HURSTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 457 54.93
White (Caucasian) 331 39.78
Mixed Race 19 2.28
White (Hispanic) 15 1.8
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

HURSTON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HURSTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HURSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HURSTON.

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 HURSTON

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