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The HUMPHREYS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,548 2447 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 4,001 1543 0.008 80
Change since 1880 +9547 -904 -0.003 -30
Other Countries
Australia 2,316 694 0.014 142
United Kingdom 15,322 381 0.033 334
Top States for HUMPHREYS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,058 2186 0.005 51
California 1,005 2999 0.003 30
Florida 920 2148 0.006 58
Tennessee 846 1001 0.015 149
Virginia 668 1337 0.009 94
Top States for HUMPHREYS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 382 702 0.021 211
Tennessee 846 1001 0.015 149
Alaska 67 1116 0.011 107
Idaho 135 1233 0.010 104
Oregon 356 1115 0.010 104

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

Classification and Origin of HUMPHREYS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 499 3.68
White (Hispanic) 282 2.08
Mixed Race 177 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 108 0.8
Asian/Pacific 46 0.34
White (Caucasian) 12,434 91.78

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

Meaning of HUMPHREYS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HUMPHREYS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUMPHREYS.

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 HUMPHREYS

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