The HORNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,308	1393	0.009	86
United States (1880 census)	6,201	984	0.012	124
Change since 1880	+17107	-409	-0.003	-38
Other Countries
Australia	1,026	1612	0.006	63
United Kingdom	6,837	918	0.015	149

Top States for HORNER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,155	561	0.018	175
California	1,565	2035	0.005	46
Ohio	1,558	835	0.014	137
Tennessee	1,352	648	0.024	238
Florida	1,256	1622	0.008	79
Top States for HORNER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	250	210	0.039	389
Tennessee	1,352	648	0.024	238
Alaska	114	661	0.018	182
Pennsylvania	2,155	561	0.018	175
South Dakota	130	570	0.017	172

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

Classification and Origin of HORNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	653	2.8
Mixed Race	359	1.54
White (Hispanic)	345	1.48
Native American/Alaskan	161	0.69
Asian/Pacific	121	0.52
White (Caucasian)	21,672	92.98

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

Meaning of HORNER in historical publications

HORNER. A manufacturer of horn. In London the horners and bottle-makers form one Company. Horn was anciently applied to many uses for which glass and other materials are at present employed. "Horns," says Fuller, "are a commodity not to be slighted, seeing I cannot call to mind any other substance so hard that it will not break ; so solid that it will hold liquor within it ; and yet so clear that light Avill pass through it. No mechanical trade but hath some utensils made thereof ; and even now I recruit my pen with ink from a vessel of the same. Yea, it is useful cap-apie, fi-om combs to shoeiug-horns. What shall I speak of many gardens made of horns to garnish houses ? I mean artificial fiowers of all colours. And besides what is spent in England, many thousand weight are shaven down into leaves for lanthorns,

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 HORNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HORNER.

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.