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The HICKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,970 1105 0.011 107
United States (1880 census) 11,175 537 0.022 224
Change since 1880 +17795 -568 -0.011 -117
Other Countries
Australia 3,318 456 0.02 203
United Kingdom 4,672 1341 0.01 102
Top States for HICKEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,827 564 0.015 149
Massachusetts 2,184 333 0.034 344
California 1,980 1629 0.006 58
Illinois 1,763 651 0.014 142
Florida 1,689 1196 0.011 106
Top States for HICKEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,184 333 0.034 344
New Hampshire 342 519 0.028 277
Connecticut 772 439 0.023 227
Maine 282 897 0.022 221
Delaware 154 862 0.020 197

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

Classification and Origin of HICKEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 791 2.73
White (Hispanic) 495 1.71
Mixed Race 316 1.09
Asian/Pacific 119 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 113 0.39
White (Caucasian) 27,139 93.68

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

Meaning of HICKEY in historical publications

The Huicci, Gwychi, a word signifying valiant men, anciently possessed Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and a part of Gloucestershire, England.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


HICKEY. See Isaac.

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 HICKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HICKEY.

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 HICKEY

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