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The DAWES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,097 5255 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,199 4687 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +4898 -568 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 2,130 759 0.013 130
United Kingdom 6,163 1015 0.013 134
Top States for DAWES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 523 5685 0.002 15
New York 504 4020 0.003 27
Florida 484 4395 0.003 30
Ohio 394 3717 0.003 35
North Carolina 340 3255 0.004 42
Top States for DAWES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 118 2022 0.009 93
Oklahoma 210 2382 0.006 61
Kentucky 211 2578 0.005 52
North Carolina 340 3255 0.004 42
Montana 38 3690 0.004 42

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

Classification and Origin of DAWES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 873 14.32
Native American/Alaskan 376 6.17
White (Hispanic) 130 2.13
Mixed Race 99 1.62
Asian/Pacific 32 0.52
White (Caucasian) 4,587 75.23

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

Meaning of DAWES in historical publications

DAWE. DAWES. DAWS. 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 DAWES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWES.

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 DAWES

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