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The HEMSLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,025 23221 0 4
United States (1880 census) 199 19387 0 4
Change since 1880 +826 -3834 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 324 4859 0.002 20
United Kingdom 2,139 2794 0.005 47
Top States for HEMSLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 150 16757 0.000 4
Maryland 137 4494 0.003 26
Utah 73 3842 0.003 33
Ohio 62 21013 0.001 5
New Jersey 53 19080 0.001 6
Top States for HEMSLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 31 2011 0.005 54
Utah 73 3842 0.003 33
Idaho 38 5119 0.003 29
Maryland 137 4494 0.003 26
Nevada 39 6209 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of HEMSLEY

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 HEMSLEY 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 HEMSLEY 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 HEMSLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 664 64.78
Black/African American 312 30.44
Mixed Race 21 2.05
White (Hispanic) 20 1.95
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 HEMSLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HEMSLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HEMSLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEMSLEY.

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 HEMSLEY

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