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The DEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,180 5193 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,674 3489 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +4506 -1704 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 576 2820 0.004 35
United Kingdom 1,645 3469 0.004 36
Top States for DEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 748 1651 0.009 93
South Carolina 401 1654 0.010 100
Michigan 371 3283 0.004 37
California 366 7598 0.001 11
Florida 347 5819 0.002 22
Top States for DEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 401 1654 0.010 100
North Carolina 748 1651 0.009 93
Mississippi 208 1944 0.007 73
Tennessee 313 2633 0.006 55
Louisiana 227 2644 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of DEW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 103 1.67
Asian/Pacific 72 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 62 1
White (Hispanic) 62 1
White (Caucasian) 4,653 75.29
Black/African American 1,228 19.87

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

Meaning of DEW in historical publications

DEW. Probably from Eu in Normandy, commonly called la Ville (VEu.

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 DEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEW.

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 DEW

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