The surname Hitchens
A patronymic surname, carried by 2,359 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H325
Origin
From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Hitchens is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,359 people named Hitchens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,880 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,235.
Who is named Hitchens
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Hitchens identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 71%
- Black (not Hispanic) 24%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Hitchens has the Soundex code H325, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H325.
Questions
- Where does the surname Hitchens come from?
- From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
- How common is the surname Hitchens?
- 2,359 people in the United States had the surname Hitchens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,880 Americans. It ranked 13,010th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hitchens?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Hitchens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Hitchens?
- Hitchens is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Hitchens getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,235 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,359 in 2010, up 5.5%.