The HUGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,293	19376	0	5
United States (1880 census)	910	5909	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+383	-13467	+N/A	-13
Other Countries
Australia	30	38474	0	2
United Kingdom	255	14126	0.001	6

Top States for HUGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	168	12258	0.001	9
Florida	139	13712	0.001	9
California	130	19538	0.000	4
Illinois	71	19968	0.001	6
Ohio	54	24356	0.000	5
Top States for HUGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	11	5247	0.002	19
Utah	31	7505	0.001	14
Iowa	34	14051	0.001	12
Delaware	8	17796	0.001	10
New Hampshire	11	14225	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of HUGH

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HUGH 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.

Ethnic distribution of HUGH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	718	55.53
Black/African American	258	19.95
Asian/Pacific	232	17.94
Mixed Race	66	5.1
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of HUGH in historical publications

HUGH. This Norman Christian name, though of rare occurrence in its simple form, has furnished a host of derivatives, some of which would hardly be supposed to be of such origin. Who at first sight would take the five surnames, Fitzhugh, Pugh, Mackay, Hoey, and Huson, to be identical in meaning? Yet this is the case; for Fitzhugh is the A. -Norman rendering of ' Filius Hugonis,' the son of Rvgli ; Pugh is a contraction of the Welsh Ap-Hugh, the son of Hugh; Mackay, of the Gaelic Mac-Aiodh, ihe son of Hugh ; Hoey is the same name deprived of its Mac ; and Huson is clearly Hughson, ■the son of Hugh. Huggins, Higgins, Hutchins, Hitchins, Hutchinson, Ilugginson, Hewet, Hewetson, Howitt, Howis, Howison, Huggett, Hoggins, as well as Hughes, Hughson, Hewson, and probably many other names, are diminutives and patronjnnics of Hugh, the soft, and of Hugo, the hard, form. See more, where necessary, under the respective names.

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 HUGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUGH.

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.