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The HECTOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,000 7671 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 533 9172 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3467 +1501 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 298 5255 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,051 5053 0.002 23
Top States for HECTOR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 416 5050 0.002 20
Florida 409 4951 0.003 26
California 405 6891 0.001 12
New York 390 5011 0.002 21
Georgia 245 3615 0.003 30
Top States for HECTOR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 22 2661 0.004 38
Georgia 245 3615 0.003 30
Florida 409 4951 0.003 26
Rhode Island 26 6040 0.002 25
Louisiana 109 4897 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of HECTOR

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 HECTOR 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 HECTOR 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 HECTOR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 373 9.33
Mixed Race 114 2.85
Asian/Pacific 26 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.43
Black/African American 1,761 44.03
White (Caucasian) 1,709 42.73

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

Meaning of HECTOR in historical publications

HECTOR. The personal name, derived from classical antiquity.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HECTOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HECTOR.

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 HECTOR

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