The HATHAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,041	1826	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	7,274	834	0.015	145
Change since 1880	+10767	-992	-0.008	-78
Other Countries
Australia	382	4150	0.002	23
United Kingdom	2,582	2391	0.006	56

Top States for HATHAWAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,462	2177	0.004	43
Massachusetts	1,102	783	0.017	174
New York	1,026	1800	0.005	54
Florida	1,006	2046	0.006	63
Texas	868	2659	0.004	42
Top States for HATHAWAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	279	273	0.046	458
Maine	296	878	0.023	232
Idaho	278	577	0.021	215
Massachusetts	1,102	783	0.017	174
Utah	335	904	0.015	150

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

Classification and Origin of HATHAWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	835	4.63
White (Hispanic)	274	1.52
Mixed Race	238	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	97	0.54
Asian/Pacific	88	0.49
White (Caucasian)	16,506	91.49

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

Similar names to HATHAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HATHAWAY.

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.