The Great Hingerty Head Count is on!
The Great Hingerty Head Count is on!
The website forebears.io reported that there were 115 Hingerty name bearers alive in the world in 2014. (Note we are talking about Hingerty name bearers not Hingerty descendants)
The forebears.io website does not disclose which data sets or definitions they used for this calculation, so the accuracy of their figure cannot be assessed.
Since we are such a rare breed, it would be great to know just how many of us there are today. and if the forebears.io distribution numbers are correct.......
and thus the Great Hingerty Head Count was launched!
First, the definition : for the purposes of this count,
A Hingerty Name Bearer is someone who is:
* Alive as at 30 June 2023- children and adults included
* Was born with the surname Hingerty and/or
* Acquired the Hingerty surname through marriage (and use it as their surname)
Using the tree that has been complied over the past four years as part of the Hingerty One Name Study and checking in with family members to add the latest arrivals and marriages......
Drum roll please........
The total is: 135!
Country figures:
Stafford UK 24
Ireland 25
USA 27
Australia 59
These figures are very different to the forebears website distribution chart.
Age profile:
32% of the current name bearers are 70 years old or more, which leaves almost two thirds who have been born since the mid 1950s... quite a youthful profile......so Hingerty is not a dying surname.
Long may it live!
Gender balance:
55 males born with the surname Hingerty
55 females born with the surname Hingerty
25 females have acquired the Hingerty surname through marriage and use it as their surname
Of the 55 females born with the Hingerty surname 29 use a married name as their surname (i.e not Hingerty)
Summary:
As at 30 June 2023 on planet Earth each day there are:
106 people using HINGERTY as their surname and
135 people 'identifying' as HINGERTY.
Thank you to all the Hingerty name bearers who have contributed to the Hingerty One Name Study over the past four years.
You have made this head count possible.
To keep the numbers up to date, please let me know when there are births, deaths and marriages within the Hingerty surname.
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hingerty@one-name.org
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