The Hunnicutt surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,690 people carried this name — #7,130 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 62,900 people counted. That is down 1% from 4,729 in 2000.

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In the first U.S. census, 1790

27 families named Hunnicutt, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 118 people lived in those households, 4.4 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 7 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

North Carolina 12
Virginia 9
South Carolina 6

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 246 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Hunnicutt in American newspapers,
1899–1911.

Newspaper page from The Richmond Palladium And Sun-telegram carrying the name Hunnicutt
The Richmond Palladium And Sun-telegram 1911-01-11
Newspaper page from The Wichita Daily Eagle carrying the name Hunnicutt
The Wichita Daily Eagle 1899-12-09
Newspaper page from The Colville Examiner carrying the name Hunnicutt
The Colville Examiner 1907-12-14

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,319 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Hunnicutt,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Arthur Hunnicutt
    Arthur Hunnicutt 1910–1979 · actor
  • Gayle Hunnicutt
    Gayle Hunnicutt 1943–2023 · actor
  • James B. Hunnicutt 1836– · writer
  • Benjamim Harris Hunnicutt 1886–1962 · agronomist
  • Jim Hunnicutt 1923– · American football player
  • Ellen Hunnicutt 1931–2003 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Hunnicutt,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States291 records

291 records of the Hunnicutt name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 213
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 62
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 3
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record John L. Hunnicutt

    Born 1918 in New Mexico. Enlisted 1942 at Phoenix, Arizona; salesperson. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Matthew Hunnicutt

    Born 1930; from Knox County, Tennessee. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; declared dead 1952 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Hiram Lee Hunnicutt

    Veteran of the Spanish–American War. Born 1880, died 1970; buried at Fayetteville National Cemetery, Arkansas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 291 records for Hunnicutt in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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