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The HEMBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,435 17952 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 187 20296 0 4
Change since 1880 +1248 +2344 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HEMBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 258 4091 0.003 32
Texas 223 9059 0.001 11
Tennessee 128 5495 0.002 22
Florida 111 17288 0.001 7
Missouri 87 8963 0.002 16
Top States for HEMBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 258 4091 0.003 32
Washington DC 14 4350 0.002 24
Tennessee 128 5495 0.002 22
Mississippi 57 5146 0.002 20
Missouri 87 8963 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of HEMBY

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

Ethnic distribution of HEMBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 299 20.84
Mixed Race 23 1.6
White (Hispanic) 20 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.98
Asian/Pacific 6 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,073 74.77

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

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

Meaning of HEMBY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HEMBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEMBY.

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 HEMBY

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