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The DEFOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,728 15539 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 292 14569 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1436 -970 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 6 135605 0 0
United Kingdom 172 17948 0 4
Top States for DEFOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 193 3632 0.004 39
Wisconsin 133 6489 0.002 25
Florida 121 14846 0.001 8
Michigan 108 12049 0.001 11
New York 103 18587 0.001 5
Top States for DEFOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 48 2210 0.007 75
Minnesota 193 3632 0.004 39
Wisconsin 133 6489 0.002 25
Alabama 80 5667 0.002 18
Oregon 58 7690 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of DEFOE

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of DEFOE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 267 15.45
Black/African American 131 7.58
Mixed Race 35 2.03
White (Hispanic) 29 1.68
Asian/Pacific 5 0.29
White (Caucasian) 1,261 72.97

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

Meaning of DEFOE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DEFOE.

Similar names to DEFOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFOE.

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 DEFOE

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