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The HOWISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 365 53191 0 1
United States (1880 census) 152 23456 0 3
Change since 1880 +213 -29735 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 137 10707 0.001 8
United Kingdom 86 24640 0 2
Top States for HOWISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 65 18193 0.001 6
Michigan 43 26598 0.000 4
California 33 57148 0.000 1
Florida 32 42232 0.000 2
Texas 28 38096 0.000 1
Top States for HOWISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 65 18193 0.001 6
Maine 6 17561 0.000 5
Michigan 43 26598 0.000 4
Maryland 18 24843 0.000 3
Arizona 15 30647 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of HOWISON

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

Ethnic distribution of HOWISON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 345 94.52
White (Hispanic) 13 3.56
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOWISON in historical publications

HOWISON. The son of Hugh, Hughie, or Hewie. The old Scot, mode of spelling Hugh was Hew, as especially in the family of Dalrymple. In Renfrewshire, where the surname abounds, it is pronounced Hewie'ssou.

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 HOWISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWISON.

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 HOWISON

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