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The HOUCHENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,583 16655 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 192 19917 0 4
Change since 1880 +1391 +3262 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOUCHENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 558 1127 0.014 138
Virginia 315 2979 0.004 45
Indiana 98 7965 0.002 16
Maryland 79 7700 0.001 15
Florida 62 27341 0.000 4
Top States for HOUCHENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 558 1127 0.014 138
Virginia 315 2979 0.004 45
Delaware 20 7245 0.003 26
Indiana 98 7965 0.002 16
Maryland 79 7700 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of HOUCHENS

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

Ethnic distribution of HOUCHENS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 234 14.78
Mixed Race 16 1.01
White (Caucasian) 1,325 83.7
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOUCHENS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOUCHENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUCHENS.

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 HOUCHENS

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