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The HARLESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,580 4908 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 762 6860 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +5818 +1952 0 +9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34468 0 0
Top States for HARLESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 922 285 0.051 510
Virginia 677 1487 0.010 96
Ohio 477 3176 0.004 42
Texas 439 5094 0.002 21
California 381 7653 0.001 11
Top States for HARLESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 922 285 0.051 510
Virginia 677 1487 0.010 96
Tennessee 378 2357 0.007 66
Alabama 295 2380 0.007 66
Oklahoma 217 2373 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of HARLESS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 75 1.14
White (Hispanic) 75 1.14
Black/African American 60 0.91
Native American/Alaskan 58 0.88
Asian/Pacific 25 0.38
White (Caucasian) 6,287 95.55

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

Meaning of HARLESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARLESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARLESS.

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 HARLESS

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