Hours Surname
Approximately 1,719 people bear this surname
Hours Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1,016 | 1:65,377 | 9,003 |
| Egypt | 427 | 1:215,306 | 15,336 |
| Argentina | 238 | 1:179,594 | 15,051 |
| Chile | 16 | 1:1,101,030 | 21,213 |
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 51 | 1:984,680 | 58,342 |
Hours (25) may also be a first name.
Hours Demographics
Hours Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Hours Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hours Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hours occurs more in France more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hours? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 234,353rd most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 4,239,410 people. Hours occurs mostly in Europe, where 60 percent of Hours live; 59 percent live in Western Europe and 59 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 2,136,160th most commonly occurring forename internationally, borne by 25 people.
Hours is most commonly occurring in France, where it is carried by 1,016 people, or 1 in 65,377. In France Hours is primarily concentrated in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 33 percent are found, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 31 percent are found and Occitanie, where 21 percent are found. Without taking into account France this last name occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 25 percent are found and Argentina, where 14 percent are found.
Hours Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Hours has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Hours surname fell 67 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Hours Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Anglican (100%) in Ireland.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Hours
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