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The DERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 675 32202 0 2
United States (1880 census) 302 14190 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +373 -18012 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 107 13447 0.001 7
United Kingdom 2 35549 0 0
Top States for DERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 114 20181 0.000 3
Wisconsin 56 15541 0.001 10
Massachusetts 53 14205 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 43 31009 0.000 4
Florida 41 36007 0.000 3
Top States for DERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 56 15541 0.001 10
Montana 8 16289 0.001 9
Massachusetts 53 14205 0.001 8
Utah 18 10552 0.001 8
Wyoming 3 17474 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of DERN

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

Ethnic distribution of DERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 621 92
Black/African American 20 2.96
White (Hispanic) 16 2.37
Mixed Race 8 1.19
Asian/Pacific 5 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.74

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

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

Meaning of DERN in historical publications

DERN. DERNE.

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 DERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DERN.

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 DERN

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