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The HEDGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,678 15910 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 449 10538 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1229 -5372 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 439 3607 0.003 27
United Kingdom 971 5382 0.002 21
Top States for HEDGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 190 7181 0.002 15
Michigan 150 8705 0.002 15
Kentucky 143 3507 0.004 35
Ohio 138 9992 0.001 12
Indiana 122 6364 0.002 20
Top States for HEDGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 143 3507 0.004 35
Indiana 122 6364 0.002 20
Illinois 190 7181 0.002 15
Michigan 150 8705 0.002 15
Wyoming 7 10127 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of HEDGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 29 1.73
Mixed Race 23 1.37
Black/African American 14 0.83
White (Caucasian) 1,604 95.59
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HEDGER in historical publications

HEDGER. A maker of hedges.

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 HEDGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEDGER.

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 HEDGER

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