The HOUGHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,019	3016	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	4,659	1342	0.009	93
Change since 1880	+6360	-1674	-0.005	-52
Other Countries
Australia	1,638	995	0.01	100
United Kingdom	14,228	416	0.031	310

Top States for HOUGHTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,005	3066	0.003	30
Michigan	868	1217	0.009	87
Massachusetts	756	1158	0.012	119
Florida	724	2809	0.005	45
New York	659	2879	0.003	35
Top States for HOUGHTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	194	462	0.032	319
New Hampshire	277	674	0.022	224
Maine	217	1147	0.017	170
Massachusetts	756	1158	0.012	119
Delaware	86	1633	0.011	110

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

Classification and Origin of HOUGHTON

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 HOUGHTON 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 HOUGHTON 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 HOUGHTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	230	2.09
White (Hispanic)	176	1.6
Mixed Race	139	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	75	0.68
Asian/Pacific	50	0.45
White (Caucasian)	10,349	93.92

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

Similar names to HOUGHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUGHTON.

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.