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The HAMPSHIRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,434 17960 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 387 11790 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1047 -6170 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 192 7847 0.001 12
United Kingdom 2,144 2789 0.005 47
Top States for HAMPSHIRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 263 4947 0.002 23
Indiana 119 5890 0.002 20
Texas 110 13582 0.001 5
Florida 109 14867 0.001 7
California 97 22148 0.000 3
Top States for HAMPSHIRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 263 4947 0.002 23
Indiana 119 5890 0.002 20
Wyoming 9 7702 0.002 18
Utah 39 5679 0.002 17
Maryland 54 9547 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of HAMPSHIRE

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 HAMPSHIRE 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 HAMPSHIRE 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 HAMPSHIRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 80 5.58
White (Hispanic) 27 1.88
Asian/Pacific 8 0.56
Mixed Race 8 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,305 91

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

Meaning of HAMPSHIRE in historical publications

HAMPSHIRE. From the county.

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 HAMPSHIRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMPSHIRE.

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 HAMPSHIRE

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