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The HINCKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,924 7817 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,637 3546 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +2287 -4271 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 40 30600 0 2
United Kingdom 204 16250 0 4
Top States for HINCKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 397 2247 0.006 63
California 314 8567 0.001 9
Utah 308 975 0.014 138
Connecticut 236 1876 0.007 69
New York 235 8237 0.001 12
Top States for HINCKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 308 975 0.014 138
Maine 161 1509 0.013 126
Idaho 123 1430 0.010 95
South Dakota 62 1786 0.008 82
New Hampshire 89 2161 0.007 72

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

Classification and Origin of HINCKLEY

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 HINCKLEY 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 HINCKLEY 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 HINCKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 75 1.91
Mixed Race 41 1.04
Asian/Pacific 25 0.64
Black/African American 9 0.23
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.18
White (Caucasian) 3,767 96

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

Meaning of HINCKLEY in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Hinckley, a town in Leicestershire, England.

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


HINCKLEY. A town in Leicestershire.

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 HINCKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HINCKLEY.

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 HINCKLEY

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