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The HOUSEMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,127 9536 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,178 4753 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +1949 -4783 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 82 16993 0.001 5
United Kingdom 669 7159 0.001 15
Top States for HOUSEMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 445 2699 0.004 45
Pennsylvania 292 5452 0.002 24
California 262 10319 0.001 8
Ohio 216 6574 0.002 19
Florida 196 9818 0.001 12
Top States for HOUSEMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 135 3197 0.005 46
Michigan 445 2699 0.004 45
South Dakota 24 5816 0.003 32
Delaware 22 6481 0.003 28
Wyoming 13 5584 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of HOUSEMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 49 1.57
Black/African American 34 1.09
Mixed Race 29 0.93
Asian/Pacific 16 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.48
White (Caucasian) 2,984 95.43

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

Meaning of HOUSEMAN in historical publications

HOUSEMAN. HOUSMAN. i. A

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HOUSEMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUSEMAN.

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 HOUSEMAN

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