The HALLIDAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,418	6997	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	1,341	4245	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+3077	-2752	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	2,037	794	0.012	125
United Kingdom	8,428	724	0.018	183

Top States for HALLIDAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	516	5236	0.002	15
New York	379	4851	0.002	20
Florida	321	5867	0.002	20
Texas	223	7909	0.001	11
Pennsylvania	217	6678	0.002	18
Top States for HALLIDAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	198	1462	0.009	89
New Hampshire	58	2950	0.005	47
Vermont	25	3651	0.004	41
Delaware	32	4061	0.004	41
Maine	50	3635	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of HALLIDAY

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 HALLIDAY 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 HALLIDAY 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 HALLIDAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	179	4.05
White (Hispanic)	81	1.83
Mixed Race	46	1.04
Asian/Pacific	19	0.43
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.25
White (Caucasian)	4,082	92.39

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

Meaning of HALLIDAY in historical publications

"Holy-day." It is said this name had its origin in the Slogan, or war-cry of a Gaelic clan residing in Annandale, who made frequent raids on the English border. On these occasions they employed the war-cry of "A holy-day," every day, in their estimation, being holy, that was spent in ravaging the enemy's country.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

HALLIDAY. A well-known Scottish border clan, who from their great animosity against the Southron are said to have adopted the -svar-cry or slogan of A Holy Day, (Scottice, " a Haly Day "), because the chiefs and people of Annandale, whenever they made a o-aid or foray upon the Saxon border, accounted the day spent in rapine and slaughter a holy one. Burke's Commoners, ii. 1 27. In the XIII. century the name began to be coimuon on the soutli of the Tweed. There were English Hallidays in our Scottish and French wars under Edw. in. and lieu. V. The Hallidays of the western counties descend from Walter Halliday, called the jUinstrcl, who was master of the revels to King Edward IV., and acquired lauds at Rodborough, co. Gloucester. B.L.G.

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 HALLIDAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALLIDAY.

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.