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The DAKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,791 15110 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 894 6002 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +897 -9108 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 397 3988 0.002 24
United Kingdom 2,650 2338 0.006 58
Top States for DAKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 191 12789 0.001 6
Ohio 146 8915 0.001 13
New York 131 14045 0.001 7
Florida 129 13370 0.001 8
Maine 113 1966 0.009 89
Top States for DAKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 113 1966 0.009 89
Connecticut 86 5201 0.003 25
New Hampshire 26 5915 0.002 21
Vermont 10 7767 0.002 16
Massachusetts 97 8040 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of DAKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DAKIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DAKIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DAKIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 31 1.73
Mixed Race 16 0.89
Black/African American 15 0.84
White (Caucasian) 1,720 96.04
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DAKIN in historical publications

DAKIN. DAKEYNE. See David.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DAKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAKIN.

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 DAKIN

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