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The DAHMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 835 27235 0 3
United States (1880 census) 167 21968 0 3
Change since 1880 +668 -5267 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 3 188008 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33395 0 0
Top States for DAHMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 107 6042 0.002 19
Illinois 62 18894 0.000 5
Colorado 60 8057 0.001 14
Florida 54 26263 0.000 3
West Virginia 47 3657 0.003 26
Top States for DAHMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 47 3657 0.003 26
Missouri 107 6042 0.002 19
Colorado 60 8057 0.001 14
Louisiana 43 9500 0.001 10
Mississippi 23 7997 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DAHMER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DAHMER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DAHMER in Missouri than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DAHMER by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DAHMER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DAHMER surname.

Ethnic distribution of DAHMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 781 93.53
Black/African American 41 4.91
White (Hispanic) 5 0.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DAHMER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

DAHMER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DAHMER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DAHMER.

Similar names to DAHMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAHMER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DAHMER

The following words are slight variants of DAHMER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.