The DEGEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,807	15009	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	68	41208	0	1
Change since 1880	+1739	+26199	+N/A	+6
Other Countries
Australia	96	14781	0.001	6
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DEGEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	253	7796	0.001	13
California	155	15995	0.000	5
Florida	120	14729	0.001	8
Iowa	113	3802	0.004	39
Michigan	92	13832	0.001	9
Top States for DEGEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	91	1026	0.012	121
Iowa	113	3802	0.004	39
Maine	39	4522	0.003	31
Minnesota	73	10811	0.001	15
Utah	33	6811	0.001	15

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

Classification and Origin of DEGEN

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

Ethnic distribution of DEGEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	29	1.6
Mixed Race	16	0.89
Asian/Pacific	14	0.77
Black/African American	11	0.61
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.28
White (Caucasian)	1,732	95.85

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

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

Similar names to DEGEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEGEN.

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.