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The DICKERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 51,017 602 0.019 189
United States (1880 census) 12,019 495 0.024 240
Change since 1880 +38998 -107 -0.005 -51
Other Countries
Australia 407 3876 0.002 25
United Kingdom 1,605 3539 0.003 35
Top States for DICKERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,733 557 0.023 227
Virginia 3,172 264 0.045 448
California 2,503 1394 0.007 74
Georgia 2,499 421 0.031 305
Ohio 2,405 546 0.021 212
Top States for DICKERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 563 182 0.072 718
Mississippi 1,663 251 0.058 585
Virginia 3,172 264 0.045 448
Tennessee 2,236 408 0.039 393
Kentucky 1,526 412 0.038 378

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

Classification and Origin of DICKERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 954 1.87
White (Hispanic) 704 1.38
Native American/Alaskan 219 0.43
Asian/Pacific 168 0.33
White (Caucasian) 33,207 65.09
Black/African American 15,769 30.91

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

Meaning of DICKERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to DICKERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKERSON.

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 DICKERSON

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