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The DELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,563 3802 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,785 3307 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +6778 -495 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 659 2457 0.004 40
United Kingdom 2,307 2611 0.005 50
Top States for DELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 952 1630 0.008 78
California 770 4047 0.002 23
Florida 711 3035 0.004 44
New York 654 3105 0.003 34
Michigan 520 2308 0.005 52
Top States for DELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 77 1380 0.010 102
Pennsylvania 952 1630 0.008 78
Maryland 363 1776 0.007 69
Montana 49 2727 0.005 54
Michigan 520 2308 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of DELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 947 11.06
White (Hispanic) 145 1.69
Mixed Race 111 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.53
Asian/Pacific 44 0.51
White (Caucasian) 7,271 84.91

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

Meaning of DELL in historical publications

DELL. A little dale or valley. From residence in one.

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 DELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DELL.

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 DELL

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