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The HANSSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 538 38644 0 2
United States (1880 census) 76 37535 0 2
Change since 1880 +462 -1109 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 210 7234 0.001 13
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HANSSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 84 24024 0.000 2
New York 55 28791 0.000 3
New Jersey 52 16550 0.001 6
Washington 45 13799 0.001 8
Florida 40 33763 0.000 3
Top States for HANSSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 5 13326 0.001 8
Washington 45 13799 0.001 8
New Jersey 52 16550 0.001 6
Nebraska 8 22969 0.000 5
Massachusetts 28 23311 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of HANSSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 500 92.94
Mixed Race 13 2.42
Asian/Pacific 11 2.04
White (Hispanic) 9 1.67
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HANSSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HANSSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANSSON.

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 HANSSON

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