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The HOGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 61,651 488 0.023 228
United States (1880 census) 20,849 246 0.042 417
Change since 1880 +40802 -242 -0.019 -189
Other Countries
Australia 6,345 211 0.039 388
United Kingdom 6,810 924 0.015 148
Top States for HOGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 4,478 707 0.013 132
New York 4,298 354 0.023 226
Texas 4,006 628 0.019 192
Florida 3,827 489 0.024 239
Illinois 2,853 385 0.023 230
Top States for HOGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,845 239 0.045 448
New Hampshire 477 350 0.039 386
Rhode Island 377 291 0.036 360
Missouri 1,976 300 0.035 353
Georgia 2,664 374 0.033 325

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

Classification and Origin of HOGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 993 1.61
Mixed Race 783 1.27
Native American/Alaskan 290 0.47
Asian/Pacific 253 0.41
White (Caucasian) 50,788 82.38
Black/African American 8,545 13.86

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

Meaning of HOGAN in historical publications

(origin: In the Cornish) mortal, in the Gaelic, a young man, from "Og," young. Hogyn, Welsh, a stripling.

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


Similar names to HOGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOGAN.

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 HOGAN

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