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The DAWS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,305 19232 0 5
United States (1880 census) 530 9228 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +775 -10004 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 362 4386 0.002 22
United Kingdom 1,079 4944 0.002 23
Top States for DAWS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 133 13567 0.001 6
Georgia 104 7297 0.001 13
Michigan 89 15856 0.001 9
Florida 86 21415 0.001 5
Tennessee 77 7627 0.001 14
Top States for DAWS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 25 5163 0.004 39
Delaware 21 7153 0.003 27
Oklahoma 55 7978 0.002 16
Iowa 46 11104 0.002 16
Tennessee 77 7627 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of DAWS

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 DAWS 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 DAWS 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 DAWS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 57 4.37
White (Hispanic) 26 1.99
Mixed Race 18 1.38
Asian/Pacific 11 0.84
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.84
White (Caucasian) 1,182 90.57

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

Meaning of DAWS 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 DAWS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWS.

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 DAWS

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