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The HAMELTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 250 72466 0 1
United States (1880 census) 2,204 2743 0.004 44
Change since 1880 -1954 -69723 +N/A -43
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HAMELTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 54 15441 0.002 18
Missouri 29 34239 0.001 5
Arizona 18 51492 0.000 4
California 16 200441 0.000 0
Michigan 13 112049 0.000 1
Top States for HAMELTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 54 15441 0.002 18
Missouri 29 34239 0.001 5
Arizona 18 51492 0.000 4
South Carolina 9 48770 0.000 2
Colorado 9 85013 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of HAMELTON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HAMELTON surname.

Ethnic distribution of HAMELTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 174 69.6
Black/African American 54 21.6
Mixed Race 14 5.6
White (Hispanic) 5 2
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

HAMELTON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HAMELTON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HAMELTON.

Similar names to HAMELTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMELTON.

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 HAMELTON

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