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The DARE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,338 9004 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,143 4874 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2195 -4130 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 995 1664 0.006 61
United Kingdom 1,765 3267 0.004 38
Top States for DARE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 486 6060 0.001 14
New Jersey 254 4013 0.003 30
Illinois 251 5473 0.002 20
Florida 204 9607 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 187 8476 0.002 15
Top States for DARE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 254 4013 0.003 30
Maryland 119 5143 0.002 22
Delaware 17 8080 0.002 22
Missouri 115 6586 0.002 21
Illinois 251 5473 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of DARE

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 DARE 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 DARE 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 DARE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 193 5.78
Black/African American 154 4.61
White (Hispanic) 75 2.25
Mixed Race 42 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.72
White (Caucasian) 2,850 85.38

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

Meaning of DARE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DARE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARE.

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 DARE

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