The HIGHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,540	5732	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,692	3462	0.003	34
Change since 1880	+3848	-2270	-0.001	-14
Other Countries
Australia	16	62950	0	1
United Kingdom	54	25919	0	1

Top States for HIGHT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	642	3646	0.003	31
California	470	6190	0.001	14
North Carolina	368	3026	0.005	46
Georgia	343	2862	0.004	42
Tennessee	287	2875	0.005	50
Top States for HIGHT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	83	1216	0.011	110
Maine	111	2122	0.009	87
Oklahoma	192	2601	0.006	56
Arkansas	137	2639	0.005	51
Tennessee	287	2875	0.005	50

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HIGHT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	371	6.7
White (Hispanic)	117	2.11
Mixed Race	91	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	64	1.16
Asian/Pacific	29	0.52
White (Caucasian)	4,868	87.87

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

Similar names to HIGHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HIGHT.

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.