The HOWLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,661	3760	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	4,889	1267	0.01	98
Change since 1880	+3772	-2493	-0.007	-66
Other Countries
Australia	391	4045	0.002	24
United Kingdom	1,335	4132	0.003	29

Top States for HOWLAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	830	1076	0.013	131
New York	787	2369	0.004	41
California	689	4237	0.002	20
Florida	542	3778	0.003	34
Michigan	449	2546	0.005	45
Top States for HOWLAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	116	883	0.019	191
New Hampshire	183	1050	0.015	148
Massachusetts	830	1076	0.013	131
Maine	160	1510	0.013	125
Rhode Island	71	2286	0.007	68

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HOWLAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	217	2.51
White (Hispanic)	162	1.87
Mixed Race	102	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	54	0.62
Asian/Pacific	26	0.3
White (Caucasian)	8,100	93.52

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

Similar names to HOWLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWLAND.

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.