The HOPSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,050	2748	0.004	45
United States (1880 census)	2,331	2611	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+9719	-137	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	218	6970	0.001	13
United Kingdom	1,296	4248	0.003	28

Top States for HOPSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,399	1963	0.007	67
Tennessee	1,161	851	0.020	204
California	679	4815	0.002	20
Mississippi	595	855	0.021	209
Illinois	579	2522	0.005	47
Top States for HOPSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	595	855	0.021	209
Tennessee	1,161	851	0.020	204
Alaska	109	801	0.017	174
Arkansas	315	1288	0.012	118
Alabama	521	1564	0.012	117

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

Classification and Origin of HOPSON

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 HOPSON 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 HOPSON 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 HOPSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	247	2.05
Native American/Alaskan	195	1.62
White (Hispanic)	147	1.22
Asian/Pacific	43	0.36
White (Caucasian)	6,720	55.77
Black/African American	4,698	38.99

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

Similar names to HOPSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOPSON.

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.