The DECKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	54,450	555	0.02	202
United States (1880 census)	16,952	328	0.034	339
Change since 1880	+37498	-227	-0.014	-137
Other Countries
Australia	281	5522	0.002	17
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DECKER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	5,259	275	0.028	277
Pennsylvania	3,720	279	0.030	303
California	3,458	913	0.010	102
Florida	3,094	610	0.019	194
Michigan	3,066	282	0.031	308
Top States for DECKER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,939	284	0.048	480
South Dakota	305	164	0.040	404
North Dakota	246	213	0.038	383
Wyoming	178	249	0.036	360
Montana	304	261	0.034	337

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DECKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	898	1.65
Mixed Race	626	1.15
Black/African American	446	0.82
Native American/Alaskan	327	0.6
Asian/Pacific	223	0.41
White (Caucasian)	51,929	95.37

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

Similar names to DECKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DECKER.

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.