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The HARRELSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,639 4294 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 671 7617 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +6968 +3323 +0.002 +15
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34305 0 0
Top States for HARRELSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,269 940 0.016 158
South Carolina 1,196 535 0.030 298
Alabama 684 1099 0.015 154
Florida 630 3281 0.004 39
Georgia 625 1695 0.008 76
Top States for HARRELSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,196 535 0.030 298
North Carolina 1,269 940 0.016 158
Alabama 684 1099 0.015 154
Georgia 625 1695 0.008 76
Mississippi 212 1885 0.007 75

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

Classification and Origin of HARRELSON

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 238 3.12
White (Hispanic) 138 1.81
Mixed Race 65 0.85
Native American/Alaskan 43 0.56
Asian/Pacific 25 0.33
White (Caucasian) 7,130 93.34

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

Meaning of HARRELSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARRELSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARRELSON.

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 HARRELSON

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