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The HIGGINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 78,107 365 0.029 290
United States (1880 census) 18,400 290 0.037 368
Change since 1880 +59707 -75 -0.008 -78
Other Countries
Australia 5,986 225 0.037 366
United Kingdom 24,405 215 0.053 531
Top States for HIGGINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 5,673 555 0.017 167
New York 4,638 323 0.024 244
Florida 4,395 415 0.027 275
Texas 3,963 639 0.019 190
Massachusetts 3,915 147 0.062 617
Top States for HIGGINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,841 69 0.144 1,444
Massachusetts 3,915 147 0.062 617
New Hampshire 683 204 0.055 553
Vermont 293 254 0.048 481
Montana 374 208 0.041 415

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

Classification and Origin of HIGGINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 398 0.51
Asian/Pacific 320 0.41
White (Caucasian) 67,110 85.92
Black/African American 8,022 10.27
Mixed Race 1,070 1.37
White (Hispanic) 1,187 1.52

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

Meaning of HIGGINS in historical publications

Little Hig or Hugh; the son of Hugh; from Hig, and the patronymic termination ings; belonging to, or the son of.

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


IHGGIX. HIGGINS. A diminutive of Hugh, through its Latin form Hugo. Hugonis the genitive case of that name (equivalent to Hugh's or Hughes) would

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 HIGGINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGGINS.

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 HIGGINS

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