The HANDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,655	2429	0.005	51
United States (1880 census)	71	39530	0	1
Change since 1880	+13584	+37101	+N/A	+50
Other Countries
Australia	133	11029	0.001	8
United Kingdom	1,620	3514	0.004	35

Top States for HANDY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,166	2176	0.006	56
California	1,104	2997	0.003	33
North Carolina	920	1421	0.011	114
Louisiana	833	823	0.019	186
Virginia	817	1196	0.012	115
Top States for HANDY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	175	801	0.022	223
Louisiana	833	823	0.019	186
Vermont	98	1166	0.016	161
Maryland	658	966	0.012	124
Virginia	817	1196	0.012	115

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

Classification and Origin of HANDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	419	3.07
Mixed Race	236	1.73
Asian/Pacific	61	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	55	0.4
White (Caucasian)	7,998	58.57
Black/African American	4,887	35.79

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

Similar names to HANDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANDY.

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.