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The HOUSMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,908 14387 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 722 7198 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1186 -7189 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 45 27551 0 3
United Kingdom 96 24149 0 2
Top States for HOUSMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 169 15118 0.000 5
Illinois 131 10571 0.001 11
Missouri 128 5868 0.002 23
Massachusetts 127 6720 0.002 20
New York 121 16144 0.001 6
Top States for HOUSMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 91 5002 0.003 31
Missouri 128 5868 0.002 23
Massachusetts 127 6720 0.002 20
Kansas 48 7075 0.002 18
Indiana 105 7268 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of HOUSMAN

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

Ethnic distribution of HOUSMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 25 1.31
Black/African American 23 1.21
White (Hispanic) 20 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.84
Asian/Pacific 13 0.68
White (Caucasian) 1,811 94.92

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

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

Meaning of HOUSMAN 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 HOUSMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOUSMAN.

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 HOUSMAN

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