The HAYS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,194	964	0.012	123
United States (1880 census)	24,749	207	0.049	495
Change since 1880	+8445	-757	-0.037	-372
Other Countries
Australia	308	5080	0.002	19
United Kingdom	731	6691	0.002	16

Top States for HAYS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,481	693	0.017	167
California	2,633	1182	0.008	78
Missouri	1,799	318	0.032	322
Florida	1,640	1198	0.010	103
Illinois	1,570	707	0.013	126
Top States for HAYS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	1,228	323	0.036	356
Missouri	1,799	318	0.032	322
Wyoming	149	296	0.030	302
Arkansas	777	408	0.029	291
Kentucky	1,103	514	0.027	273

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

Classification and Origin of HAYS

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 HAYS 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 HAYS 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 HAYS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	498	1.5
Mixed Race	438	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	199	0.6
Asian/Pacific	146	0.44
White (Caucasian)	30,744	92.62
Black/African American	1,168	3.52

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

Similar names to HAYS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAYS.

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.