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The DEE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,144 5222 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,675 3486 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +4469 -1736 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 472 3387 0.003 29
United Kingdom 1,823 3188 0.004 40
Top States for DEE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 728 4069 0.002 21
New York 555 3480 0.003 29
Florida 409 4907 0.003 26
Massachusetts 404 2212 0.006 64
Illinois 330 3921 0.003 27
Top States for DEE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 404 2212 0.006 64
Maine 66 3057 0.005 52
Delaware 36 3769 0.005 46
Minnesota 225 2889 0.005 46
Rhode Island 47 3333 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of DEE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 503 8.19
Asian/Pacific 478 7.78
Native American/Alaskan 257 4.18
White (Hispanic) 114 1.86
Mixed Race 104 1.69
White (Caucasian) 4,688 76.3

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

Meaning of DEE in historical publications

DEE. Well-known rivers in Cheshire and Aberdeenshire.

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 DEE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEE.

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 DEE

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