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The HIGGINSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,745 15421 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 427 10923 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1318 -4498 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 450 3540 0.003 28
United Kingdom 3,901 1593 0.008 85
Top States for HIGGINSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 245 1288 0.011 110
California 228 11530 0.001 7
Illinois 129 10567 0.001 10
Florida 110 16106 0.001 7
Indiana 91 8262 0.001 15
Top States for HIGGINSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 245 1288 0.011 110
Idaho 35 5482 0.003 27
Rhode Island 17 9127 0.002 16
Indiana 91 8262 0.001 15
Washington 82 9035 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of HIGGINSON

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 HIGGINSON 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 HIGGINSON 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 HIGGINSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 78 4.47
White (Hispanic) 46 2.64
Mixed Race 25 1.43
Asian/Pacific 8 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.29
White (Caucasian) 1,583 90.72

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

Meaning of HIGGINSON in historical publications

HIGGINSON. See Isaac.

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 HIGGINSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGGINSON.

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 HIGGINSON

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