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The DICKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,544 6824 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,173 4768 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +3371 -2056 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 206 7355 0.001 13
United Kingdom 1,962 3005 0.004 43
Top States for DICKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 676 3404 0.004 42
South Carolina 357 1995 0.009 89
Michigan 238 5731 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 235 7202 0.002 19
New York 231 9269 0.001 12
Top States for DICKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 357 1995 0.009 89
Washington DC 47 1460 0.008 82
Iowa 160 2852 0.005 55
Florida 676 3404 0.004 42
Wyoming 12 6714 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of DICKS

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 DICKS 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 DICKS 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 DICKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 60 1.32
White (Hispanic) 55 1.21
Asian/Pacific 25 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.2
White (Caucasian) 3,139 69.08
Black/African American 1,256 27.64

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

Meaning of DICKS in historical publications

DICKS. See Richard.

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 DICKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKS.

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 DICKS

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