The HERSHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,951	5387	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,841	3213	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+4110	-2174	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	4	33022	0	0

Top States for HERSHEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,937	594	0.016	158
Ohio	595	2201	0.005	52
California	396	6581	0.001	12
Florida	252	7240	0.002	16
New York	211	8590	0.001	11
Top States for HERSHEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,937	594	0.016	158
Ohio	595	2201	0.005	52
Wyoming	24	2555	0.005	49
Delaware	38	3382	0.005	48
Idaho	39	4459	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of HERSHEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HERSHEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of HERSHEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	69	1.16
Black/African American	68	1.14
Mixed Race	56	0.94
Native American/Alaskan	33	0.55
Asian/Pacific	29	0.49
White (Caucasian)	5,696	95.72

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

HERSHEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to HERSHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERSHEY.

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.