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The DAWKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,940 2382 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 1,864 3170 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +12076 +788 +0.001 +15
Other Countries
Australia 652 2488 0.004 40
United Kingdom 3,773 1653 0.008 82
Top States for DAWKINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,921 309 0.048 479
Florida 1,400 1518 0.009 88
North Carolina 1,310 951 0.016 163
New York 807 2437 0.004 43
Georgia 774 1422 0.009 95
Top States for DAWKINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,921 309 0.048 479
Washington DC 117 540 0.020 205
North Carolina 1,310 951 0.016 163
Alabama 700 1111 0.016 157
Mississippi 439 1052 0.015 154

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

Classification and Origin of DAWKINS

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 DAWKINS 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 DAWKINS 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 DAWKINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 289 2.07
White (Hispanic) 190 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 33 0.24
Asian/Pacific 26 0.19
Black/African American 8,441 60.55
White (Caucasian) 4,961 35.59

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

Meaning of DAWKINS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAWKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWKINS.

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 DAWKINS

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