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The HONEYMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 947 24701 0 4
United States (1880 census) 248 16467 0 5
Change since 1880 +699 -8234 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 396 4001 0.002 24
United Kingdom 1,261 4324 0.003 27
Top States for HONEYMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 93 22818 0.000 3
North Dakota 89 839 0.014 139
Ohio 86 13993 0.001 8
Kansas 63 4884 0.002 23
Oklahoma 60 6344 0.002 17
Top States for HONEYMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 89 839 0.014 139
Kansas 63 4884 0.002 23
Nebraska 31 8143 0.002 18
Oklahoma 60 6344 0.002 17
South Dakota 11 10765 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of HONEYMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 898 94.83
White (Hispanic) 27 2.85
Asian/Pacific 9 0.95
Mixed Race 8 0.84
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HONEYMAN in historical publications

HONEYMAN. Li old times when mead or metheglin was a favourite beverage, and when sugar was unknown in England, the propagation of bees, aud the jroduction of hone}', furnished employment for many persons ; aud hence the surnames Beeman and Honeyman. Honeman, Honiman, H.R. See Beeman.

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 HONEYMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HONEYMAN.

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 HONEYMAN

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