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The HINDMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,587 5693 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 1,649 3523 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +3938 -2170 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 52 24745 0 3
United Kingdom 61 25554 0 1
Top States for HINDMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 481 3237 0.004 39
Texas 408 5145 0.002 20
California 365 7558 0.001 11
Tennessee 353 2371 0.006 62
Florida 335 5955 0.002 21
Top States for HINDMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 279 2372 0.006 63
Tennessee 353 2371 0.006 62
South Carolina 228 2635 0.006 57
Oklahoma 175 2750 0.005 51
Iowa 137 3038 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of HINDMAN

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 HINDMAN 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 HINDMAN 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 HINDMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 97 1.74
Black/African American 86 1.54
Mixed Race 64 1.15
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.75
Asian/Pacific 24 0.43
White (Caucasian) 5,274 94.4

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

Meaning of HINDMAN in historical publications


A domestic, a servant; one who has the care of herds.

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


HINDMAN. Analagous to Hartman, Iluckman, &c., in relation to the care of deer. It may, however, be a pleonasm for Hind, which see.

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 HINDMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HINDMAN.

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 HINDMAN

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