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The HUGGINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,499 1538 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 4,609 1350 0.009 92
Change since 1880 +16890 -188 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 658 2459 0.004 40
United Kingdom 3,420 1827 0.007 74
Top States for HUGGINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 2,402 235 0.060 599
Florida 1,919 1118 0.012 120
North Carolina 1,504 810 0.019 187
Texas 1,474 1732 0.007 71
Georgia 1,180 957 0.014 144
Top States for HUGGINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 2,402 235 0.060 599
Alabama 867 911 0.019 195
North Carolina 1,504 810 0.019 187
West Virginia 288 990 0.016 159
Arkansas 420 878 0.016 157

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

Classification and Origin of HUGGINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 408 1.9
White (Hispanic) 376 1.75
Native American/Alaskan 247 1.15
Asian/Pacific 71 0.33
White (Caucasian) 14,761 68.66
Black/African American 5,635 26.21

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

Meaning of HUGGINS in historical publications

The same as Higgins, from Hug, the nickname for Hugh, and the patronymic termination ings, belonging to, or the son of.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to HUGGINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUGGINS.

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 HUGGINS

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