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The HOUGEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 325 58397 0 1
United States (1880 census) 93 32966 0 2
Change since 1880 +232 -25431 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOUGEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 49 10854 0.001 8
California 44 36533 0.000 1
Minnesota 34 17227 0.001 7
Iowa 29 11466 0.001 10
Wisconsin 28 22492 0.001 5
Top States for HOUGEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 15 7316 0.002 17
North Dakota 9 9255 0.001 14
Iowa 29 11466 0.001 10
Washington 49 10854 0.001 8
Alaska 5 14949 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of HOUGEN

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

Ethnic distribution of HOUGEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 316 97.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOUGEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOUGEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUGEN.

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 HOUGEN

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