Hearst Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hunts and Rutland 0
Yorkshire 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0

Hearst Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Hearst family

Profession Census Frequency
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Hearst

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Hearst 12
John Hearst 12
Robert Hearst 11
Thomas Hearst 8
Eliza Hearst 6
George Hearst 5
Hannah Hearst 5
Jane Hearst 4
Mary Hearst 4
Catherine Hearst 3
Edith Hearst 3
Henry Hearst 3
Sarah Hearst 3
Abram Hearst 2
Florence Hearst 2
Fred Hearst 2
Louisa Hearst 2
Richard Hearst 2
Samuel Hearst 2
William Hearst 2
Wyatt Hearst 2
Alex Hearst 1
Alexander Hearst 1
Alice Hearst 1
Annie Hearst 1

Hearst Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Hurst 67% 81,001
2 Hirst 67% 66,521
3 Herst 83% 897
4 Harst 83% 567
5 Horst 67% 552
6 Hearst 100% 128

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The surname Hearst is the 6th most popular variant of Hurst.

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