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The HEMMINGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,408 18216 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 172 21559 0 3
Change since 1880 +1236 +3343 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 524 3068 0.003 32
United Kingdom 4,644 1351 0.01 101
Top States for HEMMINGS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 202 8965 0.001 11
Florida 181 9701 0.001 11
Georgia 124 5706 0.002 15
New Jersey 97 9528 0.001 12
North Carolina 93 7132 0.001 12
Top States for HEMMINGS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 28 5395 0.002 15
Georgia 124 5706 0.002 15
North Carolina 93 7132 0.001 12
New Jersey 97 9528 0.001 12
Florida 181 9701 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of HEMMINGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 848 60.23
Black/African American 474 33.66
White (Hispanic) 45 3.2
Mixed Race 35 2.49
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 HEMMINGS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HEMMINGS in historical publications

HEMMING. HEMMINGS. A Danish personal name.

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 HEMMINGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEMMINGS.

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 HEMMINGS

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