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The DENNISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,132 2348 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 4,007 1540 0.008 80
Change since 1880 +10125 -808 -0.003 -28
Other Countries
Australia 477 3351 0.003 29
United Kingdom 3,141 1990 0.007 68
Top States for DENNISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,347 1045 0.012 119
Florida 993 2180 0.006 62
Illinois 807 1663 0.006 65
Kentucky 799 791 0.020 198
California 709 4376 0.002 21
Top States for DENNISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 413 648 0.032 324
West Virginia 500 571 0.028 276
Kentucky 799 791 0.020 198
Ohio 1,347 1045 0.012 119
Tennessee 487 1867 0.009 86

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

Classification and Origin of DENNISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 507 3.59
Mixed Race 252 1.78
White (Hispanic) 235 1.66
Asian/Pacific 83 0.59
White (Caucasian) 12,001 84.92
Black/African American 1,056 7.47

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

Meaning of DENNISON in historical publications

DENISON. DENNISON. The son of Denis. See, however, Dennistoun.

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 DENNISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENNISON.

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 DENNISON

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