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The HEM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 825 27496 0 3
United States (1880 census) 116 28538 0 2
Change since 1880 +709 +1042 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 88 15920 0.001 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HEM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 177 17897 0.001 5
Washington 97 9855 0.002 16
Massachusetts 60 16596 0.001 9
Texas 43 36089 0.000 2
Virginia 43 17130 0.001 6
Top States for HEM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 97 9855 0.002 16
Iowa 31 17929 0.001 11
Alaska 6 21569 0.001 10
Massachusetts 60 16596 0.001 9
Rhode Island 8 20990 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of HEM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HEM surname.

Ethnic distribution of HEM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 580 70.3
White (Caucasian) 175 21.21
Mixed Race 57 6.91
Black/African American 8 0.97
White (Hispanic) 5 0.61
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

HEM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HEM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HEM.

Similar names to HEM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEM.

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 HEM

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