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The DANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,716 10785 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 835 6329 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +1881 -4456 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 471 3393 0.003 29
United Kingdom 2,814 2205 0.006 61
Top States for DANCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 256 3639 0.004 36
California 186 14544 0.001 5
Florida 181 11048 0.001 11
North Carolina 176 5214 0.002 22
Indiana 170 4976 0.003 28
Top States for DANCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 136 1408 0.011 105
Washington DC 22 2908 0.004 38
Virginia 256 3639 0.004 36
Tennessee 161 4632 0.003 28
Indiana 170 4976 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of DANCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DANCE 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 DANCE 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 DANCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 724 26.66
Mixed Race 66 2.43
White (Hispanic) 49 1.8
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.96
Asian/Pacific 21 0.77
White (Caucasian) 1,830 67.38

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

Meaning of DANCE in historical publications

DANCE.

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 DANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DANCE.

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 DANCE

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