The HANS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,991	7691	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	1,042	5266	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+2949	-2425	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	61	21620	0	4
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HANS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	412	6538	0.001	12
New York	366	5132	0.002	19
New Jersey	284	3308	0.003	34
Ohio	267	5085	0.002	24
Florida	264	7130	0.002	17
Top States for HANS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	120	1688	0.007	70
North Dakota	29	3697	0.005	45
Wyoming	18	3670	0.004	36
New Jersey	284	3308	0.003	34
Ohio	267	5085	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of HANS

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HANS 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.

Ethnic distribution of HANS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	215	5.39
Black/African American	131	3.28
White (Hispanic)	86	2.15
Mixed Race	71	1.78
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.38
White (Caucasian)	3,473	87.02

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

Similar names to HANS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANS.

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.