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The HIGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,585 16646 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 247 16524 0 5
Change since 1880 +1338 -122 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 473 3378 0.003 29
United Kingdom 4,130 1521 0.009 90
Top States for HIGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 148 9116 0.001 13
California 134 18016 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 113 13188 0.001 9
Utah 112 2624 0.005 50
New York 85 22019 0.000 4
Top States for HIGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 112 2624 0.005 50
Rhode Island 39 4124 0.004 37
Idaho 31 6097 0.002 24
Wyoming 9 7732 0.002 18
New Hampshire 22 7063 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of HIGHAM

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 HIGHAM 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 HIGHAM 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 HIGHAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 24 1.51
Mixed Race 21 1.32
Asian/Pacific 11 0.69
Black/African American 8 0.5
White (Caucasian) 1,521 95.96
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of HIGHAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to HIGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGHAM.

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 HIGHAM

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