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The HOCKADAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,217 12773 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 403 11417 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1814 -1356 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 55 23398 0 3
United Kingdom 444 9639 0.001 10
Top States for HOCKADAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 465 2650 0.006 58
Virginia 338 2945 0.005 48
Texas 182 10744 0.001 9
California 107 24033 0.000 3
Missouri 107 7451 0.002 19
Top States for HOCKADAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 465 2650 0.006 58
Virginia 338 2945 0.005 48
Wyoming 12 6849 0.002 24
Missouri 107 7451 0.002 19
Maryland 98 6621 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of HOCKADAY

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 HOCKADAY 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 HOCKADAY 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 HOCKADAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 784 35.36
White (Hispanic) 54 2.44
Mixed Race 37 1.67
White (Caucasian) 1,326 59.81
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HOCKADAY in historical publications

HOCKDAY. HOCKADAY. An ancient festival, which commenced the fifteenth day after Easter, was called indifferently Hokeday or Hocktide. There is much uncertainty as to the origin of the customs attending it, as well as to the etymology of the word. For what is known of both, see Brand's Popular Antiquities, edit. Ellis, i. 81, 109, &c. The surname must have been originally imposed on the same principle as that which gave rise to Christmas, Pentecost, Easter, &c. See Times and Seasons.

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 HOCKADAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOCKADAY.

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 HOCKADAY

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