The HEWITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	28,857	1114	0.011	107
United States (1880 census)	6,599	921	0.013	132
Change since 1880	+22258	-193	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	3,301	457	0.02	202
United Kingdom	22,248	244	0.048	484

Top States for HEWITT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,188	1508	0.006	65
New York	2,000	865	0.011	105
Florida	1,895	1086	0.012	119
Texas	1,721	1443	0.008	83
Michigan	1,452	707	0.015	146
Top States for HEWITT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	169	561	0.028	278
South Carolina	830	783	0.021	207
Maine	238	1076	0.019	187
Montana	168	583	0.019	186
Oregon	526	737	0.015	154

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

Classification and Origin of HEWITT

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 HEWITT 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 HEWITT 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 HEWITT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	511	1.77
Mixed Race	479	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	162	0.56
Asian/Pacific	130	0.45
White (Caucasian)	24,583	85.19
Black/African American	2,990	10.36

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

Similar names to HEWITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEWITT.

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.