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The HOVERSTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 357 54152 0 1
United States (1880 census) 12 83970 0 0
Change since 1880 +345 +29818 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOVERSTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 106 6677 0.002 22
Iowa 91 4546 0.003 31
California 40 50052 0.000 1
Colorado 14 32206 0.000 3
Florida 13 93713 0.000 1
Top States for HOVERSTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 91 4546 0.003 31
Minnesota 106 6677 0.002 22
Alaska 10 9787 0.002 16
South Dakota 9 12741 0.001 12
North Dakota 3 20204 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 HOVERSTEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOVERSTEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOVERSTEN in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOVERSTEN by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOVERSTEN

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

Ethnic distribution of HOVERSTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 345 96.64
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOVERSTEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOVERSTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOVERSTEN.

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 HOVERSTEN

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