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The DICKSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 34,698 915 0.013 129
United States (1880 census) 13,919 417 0.028 278
Change since 1880 +20779 -498 -0.015 -149
Other Countries
Australia 4,678 316 0.029 286
United Kingdom 15,570 368 0.034 339
Top States for DICKSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 3,361 786 0.016 161
California 2,869 1164 0.008 85
Florida 2,041 1025 0.013 128
Ohio 1,763 742 0.016 155
Pennsylvania 1,601 844 0.013 130
Top States for DICKSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,162 564 0.029 290
Arkansas 624 577 0.023 233
Oklahoma 775 607 0.022 225
Tennessee 1,243 732 0.022 218
Utah 481 606 0.022 215

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

Classification and Origin of DICKSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 663 1.91
Mixed Race 552 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 434 1.25
Asian/Pacific 184 0.53
White (Caucasian) 27,123 78.17
Black/African American 5,743 16.55

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

Meaning of DICKSON in historical publications

DICKSON. 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 DICKSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKSON.

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 DICKSON

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