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The HORN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 51,380 593 0.019 190
United States (1880 census) 16,544 334 0.033 331
Change since 1880 +34836 -259 -0.014 -141
Other Countries
Australia 1,114 1487 0.007 68
United Kingdom 5,246 1193 0.011 114
Top States for HORN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,276 575 0.021 205
California 4,146 758 0.012 122
Ohio 3,070 368 0.027 270
Pennsylvania 2,793 405 0.023 227
Florida 2,762 716 0.017 173
Top States for HORN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,997 273 0.049 494
Oklahoma 1,469 271 0.043 426
Arkansas 1,081 293 0.040 404
Alabama 1,511 472 0.034 340
Missouri 1,600 384 0.029 286

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

Classification and Origin of HORN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 760 1.48
Mixed Race 750 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 596 1.16
Asian/Pacific 432 0.84
White (Caucasian) 44,572 86.75
Black/African American 4,270 8.31

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

Meaning of HORN in historical publications

KING HORN. A parish in Fifeshire.

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 HORN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HORN.

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 HORN

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