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The HIGHERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 251 72237 0 1
United States (1880 census) 39 56264 0 1
Change since 1880 +212 -15973 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HIGHERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 89 6327 0.002 16
New York 25 65566 0.000 1
Florida 23 59994 0.000 1
Texas 17 57096 0.000 1
Oklahoma 16 18194 0.000 5
Top States for HIGHERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 89 6327 0.002 16
Oklahoma 16 18194 0.000 5
Rhode Island 2 39661 0.000 2
Georgia 15 28289 0.000 2
Indiana 11 40143 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of HIGHERS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HIGHERS surname.

Ethnic distribution of HIGHERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 238 94.82
White (Hispanic) 6 2.39
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.99
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

HIGHERS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HIGHERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HIGHERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGHERS.

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 HIGHERS

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