The HEMPHILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,054	2542	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	3,356	1824	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+9698	-718	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	279	5565	0.002	17
United Kingdom	560	8193	0.001	12

Top States for HEMPHILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,313	1942	0.006	63
California	880	3607	0.003	26
Mississippi	737	632	0.026	259
North Carolina	706	1767	0.009	88
Florida	579	3759	0.004	36
Top States for HEMPHILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	737	632	0.026	259
Washington DC	71	949	0.012	124
Louisiana	483	1389	0.011	108
South Carolina	395	1742	0.010	98
Delaware	73	2021	0.009	93

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HEMPHILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	222	1.7
White (Hispanic)	188	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	59	0.45
Asian/Pacific	54	0.41
White (Caucasian)	8,295	63.54
Black/African American	4,237	32.46

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

Similar names to HEMPHILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEMPHILL.

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.