The HUME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,724	4801	0.002	25
United States (1880 census)	2,181	2770	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+4543	-2031	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	1,552	1057	0.009	95
United Kingdom	5,143	1224	0.011	112

Top States for HUME by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	593	4930	0.002	18
Massachusetts	375	2420	0.006	59
Florida	367	5516	0.002	23
Kentucky	346	1675	0.009	86
New York	346	5749	0.002	18
Top States for HUME by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	346	1675	0.009	86
Vermont	44	2409	0.007	72
New Hampshire	86	2268	0.007	70
Maine	84	2579	0.007	66
Alaska	38	2327	0.006	61

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

Classification and Origin of HUME

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	178	2.65
White (Hispanic)	118	1.75
Mixed Race	86	1.28
Asian/Pacific	61	0.91
Native American/Alaskan	42	0.62
White (Caucasian)	6,239	92.79

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

Similar names to HUME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUME.

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.