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The DEWEES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,329 12256 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 792 6608 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +1537 -5648 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEWEES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 304 4839 0.002 25
California 201 12131 0.001 6
Texas 183 9389 0.001 9
Ohio 167 7789 0.001 15
Indiana 158 4725 0.003 26
Top States for DEWEES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 96 2349 0.005 53
Vermont 16 5380 0.003 26
Indiana 158 4725 0.003 26
Pennsylvania 304 4839 0.002 25
Delaware 18 7168 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of DEWEES

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

Ethnic distribution of DEWEES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 83 3.56
Mixed Race 34 1.46
White (Hispanic) 24 1.03
Asian/Pacific 12 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.3
White (Caucasian) 2,169 93.13

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

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

Meaning of DEWEES in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEWEES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEWEES.

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 DEWEES

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