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The HEMPSTEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,256 19813 0 5
United States (1880 census) 466 10231 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +790 -9582 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 69 19500 0 4
United Kingdom 432 9870 0.001 9
Top States for HEMPSTEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 151 12725 0.001 8
California 134 17898 0.000 4
Ohio 96 13652 0.001 8
Florida 84 19926 0.001 5
Illinois 67 19962 0.001 5
Top States for HEMPSTEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 14 6186 0.002 23
Montana 15 9621 0.002 17
North Dakota 8 12047 0.001 12
Nebraska 19 13940 0.001 11
Iowa 32 14035 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 HEMPSTEAD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HEMPSTEAD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HEMPSTEAD in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HEMPSTEAD by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HEMPSTEAD

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 HEMPSTEAD 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 HEMPSTEAD 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 HEMPSTEAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 978 77.87
Black/African American 246 19.59
White (Hispanic) 14 1.11
Mixed Race 11 0.88
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 HEMPSTEAD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HEMPSTEAD in historical publications

HEMPSTEAD. A manor in Framfield, CO. Sussex, which had owners of the same name in the XIII cent.

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 HEMPSTEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEMPSTEAD.

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 HEMPSTEAD

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