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The HOSKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,358 1391 0.009 87
United States (1880 census) 4,451 1399 0.009 89
Change since 1880 +18907 +8 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 937 1761 0.006 57
United Kingdom 3,723 1676 0.008 81
Top States for HOSKINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 2,360 233 0.058 584
Ohio 1,859 706 0.016 164
California 1,465 2260 0.004 43
Illinois 1,326 970 0.011 107
Texas 1,225 2051 0.006 59
Top States for HOSKINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 2,360 233 0.058 584
Mississippi 597 782 0.021 210
Indiana 1,161 617 0.019 191
Tennessee 1,061 857 0.019 186
Idaho 241 718 0.019 186

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

Classification and Origin of HOSKINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 390 1.67
White (Hispanic) 336 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 112 0.48
Asian/Pacific 98 0.42
White (Caucasian) 17,472 74.8
Black/African American 4,952 21.2

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

Meaning of HOSKINS in historical publications

HOSKINS. A softened pronnnciation of Hodgkins.

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 HOSKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOSKINS.

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 HOSKINS

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