Last Name HAND

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of John, from the Dutch imported Han or Hans. The 'd' is excrescent, as in Simmonds for Simmons.
Origin English, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 1,481 (2000 US census) 1,463 (1990 US census)
Count 22,034 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 90.12%, or 19857 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 6.03%, or 1329 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.53%, or 117 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.71%, or 156 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.36%, or 300 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.24%, or 273 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

 How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

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