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The HOWETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 268 68569 0 1
United States (1880 census) 165 22200 0 3
Change since 1880 +103 -46369 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 50 25609 0 3
United Kingdom 329 11991 0.001 7
Top States for HOWETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 58 23313 0.000 5
Ohio 40 28427 0.000 4
Florida 21 62701 0.000 1
Delaware 16 8198 0.002 20
California 15 122555 0.000 0
Top States for HOWETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 16 8198 0.002 20
Pennsylvania 58 23313 0.000 5
Ohio 40 28427 0.000 4
Virginia 15 32342 0.000 2
Oklahoma 7 32897 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of HOWETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 263 98.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

Meaning of HOWETT in historical publications

HOWETT. IIOWITT. The same as Hewett, a diminutive of Hugh.

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 HOWETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWETT.

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 HOWETT

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