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The HOOSIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,438 17924 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 170 21731 0 3
Change since 1880 +1268 +3807 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOOSIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 143 6312 0.002 18
Virginia 140 6374 0.002 20
Tennessee 134 5529 0.002 24
Texas 116 15744 0.001 6
West Virginia 101 2634 0.006 56
Top States for HOOSIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 101 2634 0.006 56
Delaware 32 5133 0.004 41
Tennessee 134 5529 0.002 24
Virginia 140 6374 0.002 20
North Carolina 143 6312 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of HOOSIER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HOOSIER surname.

Ethnic distribution of HOOSIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 362 25.17
White (Hispanic) 29 2.02
Mixed Race 21 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.76
Asian/Pacific 7 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,008 70.1

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

HOOSIER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HOOSIER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOOSIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOOSIER.

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 HOOSIER

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