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    The surname Hover

    A surname, carried by 2,548 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H160

    Hover: #12,218 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hover #12,218, 2,548 people Hover: #12,218 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hover #12,218, 2,548 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hover is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,548 people named Hover in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,172 Americans. That is down 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,687.

    #12,218
    rank among US surnames
    2,548
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #10,876)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,212Wicklund2,550121,077
    #12,215Hemmer2,549121,124
    #12,218Hover2,548121,172
    #12,221Berrier2,547121,219
    #12,227Greenhalgh2,546121,267

    Who is named Hover

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    91% of people named Hover identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hover

    Hover has the Soundex code H160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hover?
    2,548 people in the United States had the surname Hover in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,172 Americans. It ranked 12,218th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hover?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Hover identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hover getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,687 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,548 in 2010, down 5.2%.