The HARKNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,635	5648	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	1,925	3071	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+3710	-2577	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	594	2726	0.004	36
United Kingdom	2,771	2252	0.006	60

Top States for HARKNESS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	365	3127	0.004	37
California	364	7247	0.001	11
Texas	335	5759	0.002	16
Florida	330	5765	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	298	4939	0.002	24
Top States for HARKNESS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	45	2603	0.006	60
Idaho	67	2628	0.005	52
Washington	273	2613	0.005	46
Kansas	122	2600	0.005	45
Utah	89	3049	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of HARKNESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	643	11.41
Mixed Race	75	1.33
White (Hispanic)	75	1.33
Asian/Pacific	30	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.3
White (Caucasian)	4,795	85.09

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

Similar names to HARKNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARKNESS.

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.