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The DEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,602 8426 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 586 8497 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3016 +71 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 323 4875 0.002 20
United Kingdom 2,751 2262 0.006 60
Top States for DEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 503 947 0.018 177
Texas 453 4909 0.002 22
California 327 8678 0.001 10
Michigan 208 6229 0.002 21
Illinois 182 7654 0.001 15
Top States for DEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 503 947 0.018 177
Delaware 41 3568 0.005 52
Louisiana 170 3502 0.004 38
Montana 21 7212 0.002 23
Texas 453 4909 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of DEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 860 23.88
Asian/Pacific 125 3.47
White (Hispanic) 78 2.17
Mixed Race 73 2.03
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.36
White (Caucasian) 2,453 68.1

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

Meaning of DEAR in historical publications

DEAR. 1. Appears to be synonymous with the Fr. family name Cher, the Latin Cams, &c. 2. Deor occurs in the Codox Exoniensis as a personal name. It is doubtless derived from the deer, so spelt in A-Sax.

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 DEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEAR.

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 DEAR

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