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The DESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 272 67725 0 1
United States (1880 census) 33 60349 0 1
Change since 1880 +239 -7376 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 62 21525 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 52 27660 0.000 4
Wisconsin 36 24317 0.001 7
Connecticut 23 21089 0.001 7
Montana 19 7691 0.002 21
Florida 18 76375 0.000 1
Top States for DESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 19 7691 0.002 21
Connecticut 23 21089 0.001 7
Wisconsin 36 24317 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 52 27660 0.000 4
Nebraska 6 30227 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of DESS

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

Ethnic distribution of DESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 240 88.24
Mixed Race 11 4.04
Native American/Alaskan 11 4.04
Black/African American 6 2.21
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of DESS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DESS.

Similar names to DESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESS.

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 DESS

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