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The HEDGES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,371 3489 0.003 35
United States (1880 census) 3,431 1786 0.007 69
Change since 1880 +5940 -1703 -0.004 -34
Other Countries
Australia 953 1735 0.006 58
United Kingdom 5,165 1222 0.011 112
Top States for HEDGES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 934 1409 0.008 82
California 647 4401 0.002 19
Indiana 588 1220 0.010 97
Kentucky 568 999 0.014 141
Florida 503 3959 0.003 31
Top States for HEDGES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 568 999 0.014 141
Montana 119 864 0.013 132
Wyoming 60 915 0.012 122
Indiana 588 1220 0.010 97
Ohio 934 1409 0.008 82

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

Classification and Origin of HEDGES

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 HEDGES 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 HEDGES 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 HEDGES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 197 2.1
White (Hispanic) 141 1.5
Mixed Race 102 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.83
Asian/Pacific 44 0.47
White (Caucasian) 8,809 94

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

Meaning of HEDGES in historical publications

HEDGES. The modern form of AtHedge— first derived from residence near one.

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


(origin: Local) A fence of thorn-bushes; a thicket of shrubs; an inclosure of shrubs or small trees.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to HEDGES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEDGES.

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 HEDGES

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