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The HOSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 529 39176 0 2
United States (1880 census) 73 38732 0 1
Change since 1880 +456 -444 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32108 0 0
Top States for HOSTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 51 11454 0.001 11
Ohio 49 32423 0.000 4
Virginia 40 18776 0.001 6
California 37 74578 0.000 1
North Carolina 32 19683 0.000 4
Top States for HOSTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 22 3511 0.004 38
Louisiana 51 11454 0.001 11
West Virginia 16 10665 0.001 9
Arkansas 18 14914 0.001 7
Virginia 40 18776 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of HOSTON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HOSTON surname.

Ethnic distribution of HOSTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 436 82.42
White (Caucasian) 66 12.48
Mixed Race 16 3.02
White (Hispanic) 11 2.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

HOSTON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HOSTON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HOSTON.

Similar names to HOSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOSTON.

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 HOSTON

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