The HOBSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,517	2011	0.006	61
United States (1880 census)	4,479	1389	0.009	90
Change since 1880	+12038	-622	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	1,773	919	0.011	108
United Kingdom	9,494	633	0.021	207

Top States for HOBSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,354	2390	0.004	40
North Carolina	1,001	1256	0.012	124
Texas	865	2706	0.004	41
Indiana	817	909	0.013	134
Michigan	812	1379	0.008	82
Top States for HOBSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	637	707	0.022	224
Alaska	106	735	0.017	169
Idaho	209	811	0.016	162
Indiana	817	909	0.013	134
Alabama	569	1309	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of HOBSON

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 HOBSON 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 HOBSON 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 HOBSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	253	1.53
White (Hispanic)	220	1.33
Native American/Alaskan	155	0.94
Asian/Pacific	63	0.38
White (Caucasian)	11,673	70.67
Black/African American	4,154	25.15

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

Similar names to HOBSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOBSON.

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.