The HALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	82,955	338	0.031	308
United States (1880 census)	21,045	244	0.042	421
Change since 1880	+61910	-94	-0.011	-113
Other Countries
Australia	2,137	754	0.013	131
United Kingdom	13,288	444	0.029	289

Top States for HALE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	7,495	325	0.036	359
California	5,738	546	0.017	169
Tennessee	5,067	132	0.089	891
Ohio	4,624	236	0.041	407
Florida	4,081	453	0.026	255
Top States for HALE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	5,067	132	0.089	891
Kentucky	3,135	146	0.078	776
Oklahoma	2,484	154	0.072	720
Arkansas	1,836	164	0.069	687
Alabama	3,026	210	0.068	680

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

Classification and Origin of HALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	987	1.19
Asian/Pacific	382	0.46
White (Caucasian)	69,674	83.99
Black/African American	9,266	11.17
Mixed Race	1,319	1.59
White (Hispanic)	1,327	1.6

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

Similar names to HALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALE.

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.