The HURST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	44,587	702	0.017	165
United States (1880 census)	8,681	690	0.017	174
Change since 1880	+35906	-12	0	-9
Other Countries
Australia	2,256	710	0.014	138
United Kingdom	12,964	456	0.028	282

Top States for HURST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,349	787	0.016	161
Florida	3,278	593	0.021	205
Tennessee	3,012	261	0.053	529
California	2,864	1161	0.008	85
Ohio	2,624	465	0.023	231
Top States for HURST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	3,012	261	0.053	529
Alabama	1,813	386	0.041	408
Kentucky	1,622	363	0.040	401
Utah	834	301	0.037	373
Oklahoma	1,217	362	0.035	353

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

Classification and Origin of HURST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	655	1.47
Mixed Race	526	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	214	0.48
Asian/Pacific	161	0.36
White (Caucasian)	38,572	86.51
Black/African American	4,459	10

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

Meaning of HURST in historical publications

(origin: Saxon. Local) A wood, a grove; fruit-bearing trees.

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

HURST. Parishes and places in Sussex, Berks, Kent, Hampshire, Northumberland, York, and many other counties. l@f HURST. A-Sax. hjrsf, a wood or forest--whence numerous names of ijlaces which have liecome surnames, as Akehurst, Brinkliurst, Crowhurst, Dighurst, Elmlnn-st. The termination is principally found in the South-eastern coun

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 HURST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HURST.

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.