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The DENNETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,058 13540 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 627 8055 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1431 -5485 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 351 4513 0.002 21
United Kingdom 2,138 2796 0.005 47
Top States for DENNETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 224 13855 0.001 7
Massachusetts 184 5608 0.003 29
Texas 171 12128 0.001 8
Kansas 134 3124 0.005 50
Maine 122 2272 0.010 96
Top States for DENNETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 122 2272 0.010 96
New Hampshire 73 3088 0.006 59
Kansas 134 3124 0.005 50
Massachusetts 184 5608 0.003 29
Idaho 36 6265 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of DENNETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 127 6.17
Black/African American 109 5.3
Mixed Race 42 2.04
Native American/Alaskan 31 1.51
Asian/Pacific 10 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,739 84.5

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

Meaning of DENNETT in historical publications

DENNETT. 1. A diminutive of Denis. 2. There is an unsupported tradition in the Sussex family that the name was originally At Denne, or Dean, and that by a syllabic transposition it became Den-At or Dennett.

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 DENNETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENNETT.

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 DENNETT

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