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The HANWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 433 46331 0 2
United States (1880 census) 171 21578 0 3
Change since 1880 +262 -24753 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HANWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 71 8838 0.001 13
California 55 35894 0.000 2
Nebraska 26 9368 0.002 15
Florida 25 51316 0.000 2
New Mexico 25 5592 0.001 14
Top States for HANWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 24 2415 0.005 49
Idaho 21 7742 0.002 16
Nebraska 26 9368 0.002 15
New Mexico 25 5592 0.001 14
Missouri 71 8838 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of HANWAY

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

Ethnic distribution of HANWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 351 81.06
Native American/Alaskan 41 9.47
White (Hispanic) 28 6.47
Mixed Race 7 1.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HANWAY in historical publications

HANWAY. a native of Hainault. That country was so called until temp. Henry VIII.

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 HANWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANWAY.

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 HANWAY

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