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The DARK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,868 10294 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 592 8424 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +2276 -1870 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 528 3053 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,236 4400 0.003 27
Top States for DARK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 335 4000 0.004 42
Texas 307 8415 0.001 15
Alabama 249 3330 0.006 56
California 231 15004 0.001 7
Louisiana 205 3844 0.005 46
Top States for DARK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 249 3330 0.006 56
Louisiana 205 3844 0.005 46
North Carolina 335 4000 0.004 42
Washington DC 23 3459 0.004 40
Oklahoma 130 4764 0.004 38

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

Classification and Origin of DARK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 510 17.78
Asian/Pacific 467 16.28
White (Hispanic) 52 1.81
Mixed Race 39 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.31
White (Caucasian) 1,791 62.45

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

Meaning of DARK in historical publications

DARKE or DARK. This name, which is not uncommon in the West of England, is probably identical with the De Arcis, of Domesday book. William d'Arques, or de Arcis, was lord of Folkestone, co. Kent, temp. William I., having settled in England after the Norman Conquest. His ancestors were vicomtes of Arques, now a bourg and castle, four or five miles from Dieppe in Normandy. Stapleton on the barony of William of Arques, in Canterbury Report of Brit. Ai-chffiological Association, p. 166.

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 DARK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARK.

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 DARK

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