The HOSIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,839	10404	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	504	9623	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+2335	-781	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	44	28455	0	3
United Kingdom	505	8800	0.001	11

Top States for HOSIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	319	3084	0.005	52
New York	263	9227	0.001	14
Pennsylvania	245	7824	0.002	20
California	226	13870	0.001	7
Ohio	148	11198	0.001	13
Top States for HOSIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	319	3084	0.005	52
Arkansas	87	4425	0.003	33
Nebraska	47	7337	0.003	27
Kansas	65	6439	0.002	24
Iowa	65	8924	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of HOSIER

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 HOSIER 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 HOSIER 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 HOSIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	44	1.55
White (Hispanic)	42	1.48
Mixed Race	30	1.06
Asian/Pacific	22	0.77
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.67
White (Caucasian)	2,682	94.47

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

Meaning of HOSIER in historical publications

HOSIER. Camden explains Chaucer by Hosier. The hosier of modern times sells stockings and other soft ' under clothing.' Two hundred years ago, the hosiers of Loudon were those tailors who sold readymade clothes {qui vendent des habits dlwmmes tons aits. Cotgr.); but the original hosier was he who encased the " nether man " in leather : " The chanssure connnonly used in England, when surnames were first adopted by the commonalty, was of leather, covered both the foot and leg, and was called hose. Hosier, therefore, is the same with Chancier, which comes from the Lat. calcearins, and differs but little in meaning from another word used to denote the man who followed this employment, viz., Sutor, Sowter, or Souter, which was in use in English from the time of Chaucer to that of Beaumont and Fletcher. It is still preserved in Scotland, and has become a surname in both countries." Edinburgh Review, Ajiril, 1855.

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 HOSIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOSIER.

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.