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The HEWETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,159 5211 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 2,846 2150 0.006 57
Change since 1880 +3313 -3061 -0.004 -34
Other Countries
Australia 1,028 1607 0.006 63
United Kingdom 2,767 2255 0.006 60
Top States for HEWETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,281 933 0.016 159
Florida 754 2750 0.005 47
Texas 465 4606 0.002 22
Georgia 378 2572 0.005 46
California 351 7798 0.001 10
Top States for HEWETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,281 933 0.016 159
Maine 158 1552 0.012 124
South Carolina 198 2909 0.005 49
Florida 754 2750 0.005 47
New Hampshire 58 3093 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of HEWETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 453 7.36
White (Hispanic) 96 1.56
Mixed Race 86 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.65
Asian/Pacific 29 0.47
White (Caucasian) 5,455 88.57

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

Meaning of HEWETT in historical publications

HEWETT. A diminutive of Hugh, and hence Hewitt, Hewetson, and Hewitson.

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 HEWETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEWETT.

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 HEWETT

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