View the most partisan surnames in The United States

Where Does The Last Name Hair Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

The last name Hair (Arabic: شعر, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺧﻴﺮ, Hindi: हइर्, Oriya: ହଇର) occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Háir. Click here for further possible spellings of Hair.

How Common Is The Last Name Hair? ^{popularity and diffusion}

Hair is the 26,067^th most widely held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 352,959 people. The last name Hair occurs mostly in The Americas, where 56 percent of Hair are found; 55 percent are found in North America and 55 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Hair is also the 161,154^th most frequently used forename on earth, borne by 2,165 people.

The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 11,050 people, or 1 in 32,802. In The United States Hair is primarily concentrated in: Texas, where 11 percent live, North Carolina, where 10 percent live and South Carolina, where 9 percent live. Excluding The United States this last name is found in 102 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 8 percent live and Australia, where 7 percent live.

Hair Family Population Trend ^{historical fluctuation}

The frequency of Hair has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Hair surname grew 447 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 273 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it decreased 4 percent between 1901 and 2014 and in Wales it grew 191 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Hair Last Name Statistics ^demography

The religious adherence of those holding the Hair last name is predominantly Presbyterian (64%) in Ireland and Orthodox (83%) in Russia.

In The United States those holding the Hair surname are 16.73% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 63.5% being registered with the party.

The amount Hair earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 108.74% more than the national average, earning R 496,044 per year; in United States they earn 6.38% less than the national average, earning $40,398 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.83% more than the national average, earning $50,097 CAD per year.