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The HUFFMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 49,737 620 0.018 184
United States (1880 census) 13,273 443 0.027 265
Change since 1880 +36464 -177 -0.009 -81
Other Countries
Australia 2 266393 0 0
United Kingdom 31 27408 0 1
Top States for HUFFMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 4,999 216 0.044 440
North Carolina 4,105 246 0.051 510
Texas 3,113 833 0.015 149
Virginia 2,975 270 0.042 420
California 2,891 1137 0.009 85
Top States for HUFFMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,851 93 0.102 1,024
North Carolina 4,105 246 0.051 510
Ohio 4,999 216 0.044 440
Virginia 2,975 270 0.042 420
Indiana 2,537 232 0.042 417

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

Classification and Origin of HUFFMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 597 1.2
Mixed Race 562 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 269 0.54
Asian/Pacific 164 0.33
White (Caucasian) 46,196 92.88
Black/African American 1,950 3.92

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

Meaning of HUFFMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to HUFFMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUFFMAN.

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 HUFFMAN

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