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The HENTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,271 12511 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 698 7375 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1573 -5136 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 9 93690 0 1
United Kingdom 721 6766 0.002 16
Top States for HENTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 235 9434 0.001 11
California 206 14842 0.001 6
Michigan 160 9738 0.002 16
Illinois 131 12593 0.001 11
Louisiana 117 5485 0.003 26
Top States for HENTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 92 3999 0.003 32
Louisiana 117 5485 0.003 26
Alabama 114 5106 0.003 26
Kansas 66 6179 0.002 25
Michigan 160 9738 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of HENTON

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 HENTON 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 HENTON 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 HENTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 44 1.94
White (Hispanic) 31 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.66
Asian/Pacific 13 0.57
Black/African American 1,026 45.18
White (Caucasian) 1,142 50.29

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

Meaning of HENTON in historical publications

HENTON. a distn(!t near Chinnor, CO. Oxon.

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 HENTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HENTON.

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 HENTON

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