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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

'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.

Meaning of HARKNESS in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HARKNESS

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