The HOBBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,839	10404	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	783	6672	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2056	-3732	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	256	6022	0.002	16
United Kingdom	601	7775	0.001	13

Top States for HOBBY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	430	2556	0.005	53
Florida	351	6401	0.002	22
Tennessee	262	3322	0.005	46
Texas	183	10803	0.001	9
Arkansas	154	2593	0.006	58
Top States for HOBBY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	154	2593	0.006	58
Georgia	430	2556	0.005	53
Tennessee	262	3322	0.005	46
Mississippi	120	3133	0.004	42
Connecticut	75	6925	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of HOBBY

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 HOBBY 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 HOBBY 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 HOBBY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	271	9.55
Mixed Race	49	1.73
White (Hispanic)	30	1.06
Asian/Pacific	11	0.39
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.28
White (Caucasian)	2,470	87

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

Similar names to HOBBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOBBY.

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.