The HAIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,231	3959	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	2,469	2469	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+5762	-1490	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	521	3090	0.003	32
United Kingdom	1,304	4229	0.003	28

Top States for HAIR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	893	824	0.022	223
North Carolina	846	1610	0.011	105
Texas	779	3312	0.004	37
Florida	655	3527	0.004	41
California	558	5720	0.002	16
Top States for HAIR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	893	824	0.022	223
North Carolina	846	1610	0.011	105
Utah	217	1580	0.010	97
Oklahoma	326	1640	0.009	94
Washington DC	29	2342	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of HAIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	159	1.93
White (Hispanic)	146	1.77
Mixed Race	137	1.66
Asian/Pacific	69	0.84
White (Caucasian)	6,693	81.31
Black/African American	1,027	12.48

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

Similar names to HAIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAIR.

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.