The HAIRSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,891	2242	0.006	55
United States (1880 census)	3,514	1740	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+11377	-502	-0.001	-15
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HAIRSTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	3,058	295	0.043	432
North Carolina	2,417	541	0.030	300
Ohio	1,324	1134	0.012	117
Texas	786	3288	0.004	38
Maryland	704	963	0.013	133
Top States for HAIRSTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	3,058	295	0.043	432
North Carolina	2,417	541	0.030	300
Washington DC	131	516	0.023	229
West Virginia	318	969	0.018	176
Mississippi	444	1124	0.016	156

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

Classification and Origin of HAIRSTON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAIRSTON 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.

Ethnic distribution of HAIRSTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	433	2.91
White (Hispanic)	189	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.21
Asian/Pacific	30	0.2
Black/African American	12,365	83.04
White (Caucasian)	1,842	12.37

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

Similar names to HAIRSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAIRSTON.

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.