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The DENMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,869 5452 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,615 3595 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +4254 -1857 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 694 2322 0.004 42
United Kingdom 1,880 3119 0.004 41
Top States for DENMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,005 2310 0.005 48
Ohio 519 2626 0.005 46
Michigan 391 2943 0.004 39
California 345 7692 0.001 10
Florida 314 6129 0.002 20
Top States for DENMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 269 2617 0.005 50
Texas 1,005 2310 0.005 48
Ohio 519 2626 0.005 46
Washington 255 2850 0.004 43
Michigan 391 2943 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of DENMAN

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 DENMAN 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 DENMAN 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 DENMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 438 7.46
White (Hispanic) 90 1.53
Mixed Race 56 0.95
Native American/Alaskan 31 0.53
Asian/Pacific 18 0.31
White (Caucasian) 5,236 89.21

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

Meaning of DENMAN in historical publications

A denizen; in Welsh, Dinman, the place of a fortress, from din, a fortress, and man, a place. Denman, Saxon, the man of the valley; a dweller in the vale.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DENMAN. See the termination, den and 31AN. The form in H.R. is Ate Dene. A dweller in a dene or ' den' would be called a Denman or a Denyer. The writer of the article on Surnames in Ediub. Rev. April, 1855, thinks the original Denman ■was a swineherd.

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 DENMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENMAN.

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 DENMAN

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