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The HESKETH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 691 31621 0 3
United States (1880 census) 75 37793 0 2
Change since 1880 +616 +6172 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 257 5990 0.002 16
United Kingdom 3,272 1913 0.007 71
Top States for HESKETH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 79 25934 0.000 2
Massachusetts 60 11707 0.001 9
Ohio 56 20326 0.000 5
Florida 53 27330 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 48 26063 0.000 4
Top States for HESKETH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 41 4011 0.003 32
Rhode Island 14 9699 0.001 13
New Hampshire 15 9342 0.001 12
Connecticut 34 12452 0.001 10
Massachusetts 60 11707 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of HESKETH

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 HESKETH 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 HESKETH 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 HESKETH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 665 96.24
White (Hispanic) 11 1.59
Black/African American 5 0.72
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HESKETH in historical publications

HESKETH. \rusard Ascuit, Hascoit, or Hasculfus, appears in Domesday as a capital tenant in the counties of Derby, Bucks, Oxford, AVarwick, &c. Camden, speaking of the name Askew, erroneously says, that it comes from Ascouth, and that " from the old Christian name Aiscuith, which in Latin was Hasculphusand Hastulphus, that is, Speedy-Help." The baronet's family claim to have been possessed of Hesketh, CO. Lancaster, from the Conquest, and the pedigree is deduced without hiatus from Rich, de Haskayth 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 HESKETH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HESKETH.

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 HESKETH

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