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The HANDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 236 75938 0 1
United States (1880 census) 199 19348 0 4
Change since 1880 +37 -56590 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 2 258102 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HANDERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 27 114840 0.000 1
Washington 23 45589 0.000 4
New York 19 126083 0.000 1
Florida 17 119751 0.000 1
Texas 17 83550 0.000 1
Top States for HANDERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 6 36534 0.000 5
Washington 23 45589 0.000 4
Connecticut 11 60001 0.000 3
Alabama 10 32311 0.000 2
Maryland 10 70925 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 HANDERSON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HANDERSON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HANDERSON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HANDERSON by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HANDERSON

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

Ethnic distribution of HANDERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 116 49.15
Black/African American 91 38.56
Mixed Race 12 5.08
Native American/Alaskan 10 4.24
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HANDERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HANDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANDERSON.

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 HANDERSON

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