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The HORNBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 880 26147 0 3
United States (1880 census) 296 14446 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +584 -11701 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 387 4099 0.002 24
United Kingdom 3,825 1630 0.008 83
Top States for HORNBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 104 7724 0.002 19
California 92 23510 0.000 3
Florida 63 24011 0.000 4
Washington 63 10678 0.001 11
Michigan 52 22435 0.001 5
Top States for HORNBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 34 5126 0.003 26
Wisconsin 104 7724 0.002 19
Nebraska 25 10148 0.001 15
Connecticut 38 11419 0.001 11
Washington 63 10678 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of HORNBY

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 HORNBY 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 HORNBY 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 HORNBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 857 97.39
Black/African American 9 1.02
White (Hispanic) 7 0.8
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HORNBY in historical publications

HORNBY. Parishes, &c., in cos. Lancaster and York.

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 HORNBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HORNBY.

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 HORNBY

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