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The HOUGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 353 54643 0 1
United States (1880 census) 98 31969 0 2
Change since 1880 +255 -22674 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 8 107136 0 0
United Kingdom 244 14546 0.001 5
Top States for HOUGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 52 26768 0.000 4
Washington 41 18192 0.001 7
Iowa 40 12079 0.001 14
Kansas 30 11316 0.001 11
California 29 74579 0.000 1
Top States for HOUGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 7 10188 0.001 14
Iowa 40 12079 0.001 14
Kansas 30 11316 0.001 11
Washington 41 18192 0.001 7
Maine 6 20477 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of HOUGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 340 96.32
White (Hispanic) 6 1.7
Mixed Race 5 1.42
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of HOUGHAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOUGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUGHAM.

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 HOUGHAM

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