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The DICKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,282 19491 0 5
United States (1880 census) 248 16464 0 5
Change since 1880 +1034 -3027 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 672 2402 0.004 41
United Kingdom 1,355 4086 0.003 30
Top States for DICKER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 214 8718 0.001 11
California 158 15103 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 106 13419 0.001 9
New Jersey 90 10568 0.001 11
Illinois 77 16726 0.001 6
Top States for DICKER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 50 3692 0.004 39
New York 214 8718 0.001 11
New Jersey 90 10568 0.001 11
South Carolina 38 8847 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 106 13419 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of DICKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 126 9.83
White (Hispanic) 22 1.72
Mixed Race 9 0.7
White (Caucasian) 1,115 86.97
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DICKER in historical publications

DICKER. A district in Sussex, formerly an extensive waste. Ate Dykere occurs temp. Edw. III. among the Barons of the Cinque Ports, and le Dykere some years earlier, in the same county.

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 DICKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKER.

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 DICKER

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