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The DAWN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,319 19079 0 5
United States (1880 census) 117 28252 0 2
Change since 1880 +1202 +9173 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 30 38382 0 2
United Kingdom 302 12696 0.001 7
Top States for DAWN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 155 13936 0.000 5
Texas 106 13393 0.001 5
Florida 66 21719 0.000 4
Kentucky 66 5449 0.002 16
Missouri 61 9813 0.001 11
Top States for DAWN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 66 5449 0.002 16
Arkansas 33 7066 0.001 12
Missouri 61 9813 0.001 11
Nebraska 18 12527 0.001 11
Washington DC 6 7443 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of DAWN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 889 67.4
Black/African American 305 23.12
Asian/Pacific 39 2.96
Mixed Race 29 2.2
White (Hispanic) 29 2.2
Native American/Alaskan 28 2.12

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

Meaning of DAWN in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAWN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWN.

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 DAWN

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