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The HIGBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,460 17702 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 1,119 4965 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +341 -12737 -0.001 -17
Other Countries
Australia 7 113123 0 0
United Kingdom 167 18336 0 4
Top States for HIGBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 162 8881 0.001 13
California 159 14844 0.000 5
New York 155 11736 0.001 8
Colorado 81 6504 0.002 19
Texas 71 19377 0.000 3
Top States for HIGBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 18 5079 0.003 29
Idaho 26 6813 0.002 20
Colorado 81 6504 0.002 19
Wyoming 8 8815 0.002 16
Oregon 49 8407 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of HIGBY

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 HIGBY 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 HIGBY 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 HIGBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 25 1.71
Mixed Race 20 1.37
Asian/Pacific 12 0.82
Black/African American 8 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.34
White (Caucasian) 1,390 95.21

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

Meaning of HIGBY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HIGBY.

Similar names to HIGBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGBY.

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 HIGBY

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