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The HITCHENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,235 12692 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 648 7851 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1587 -4841 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 289 5379 0.002 18
United Kingdom 801 6260 0.002 17
Top States for HITCHENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 641 143 0.082 818
Pennsylvania 164 9193 0.001 13
Ohio 135 9847 0.001 12
Maryland 134 4413 0.003 25
Louisiana 127 4305 0.003 28
Top States for HITCHENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 641 143 0.082 818
Louisiana 127 4305 0.003 28
Maryland 134 4413 0.003 25
Colorado 63 8633 0.001 15
Pennsylvania 164 9193 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of HITCHENS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 526 23.53
Mixed Race 33 1.48
White (Hispanic) 20 0.89
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.67
Asian/Pacific 10 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,631 72.98

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

Meaning of HITCHENS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HITCHENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HITCHENS.

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 HITCHENS

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