The HENDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	210,094	101	0.078	779
United States (1880 census)	50,161	76	0.1	1,003
Change since 1880	+159933	-25	-0.022	-224
Other Countries
Australia	10,325	108	0.063	632
United Kingdom	39,505	112	0.086	860

Top States for HENDERSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	20,050	98	0.096	962
California	15,502	174	0.046	458
Florida	12,416	110	0.078	777
Georgia	10,101	65	0.123	1,234
Ohio	8,736	96	0.077	769
Top States for HENDERSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	8,714	50	0.196	1,959
Mississippi	4,536	66	0.159	1,595
South Carolina	6,075	73	0.151	1,514
Arkansas	3,828	60	0.143	1,432
Louisiana	5,651	80	0.126	1,264

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

Classification and Origin of HENDERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	798	0.38
White (Caucasian)	130,636	62.18
Black/African American	69,751	33.2
Mixed Race	3,803	1.81
White (Hispanic)	3,383	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	1,723	0.82

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

Similar names to HENDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HENDERSON.

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.