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The DECENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 190 90252 0 1
United States (1880 census) 27 65541 0 1
Change since 1880 +163 -24711 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 30 38366 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DECENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 63 13435 0.001 13
Nebraska 28 10499 0.002 16
Florida 14 99432 0.000 1
Wisconsin 13 55379 0.000 2
California 10 178438 0.000 0
Top States for DECENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 28 10499 0.002 16
Minnesota 63 13435 0.001 13
North Dakota 6 14672 0.001 9
Alaska 3 33288 0.000 5
Montana 4 29998 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of DECENT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DECENT surname.

Ethnic distribution of DECENT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 170 89.47
White (Hispanic) 8 4.21
Mixed Race 5 2.63
Native American/Alaskan 5 2.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DECENT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DECENT in historical publications

DECENT. Probably from the becoming demeanour of the first owner of the surname. Daseut may be a corruption.

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 DECENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DECENT.

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 DECENT

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