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The DIKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,649 16128 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 749 6955 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +900 -9173 0 -9
Other Countries
Australia 53 24159 0 3
United Kingdom 186 17170 0 4
Top States for DIKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 231 8878 0.001 11
California 171 16207 0.001 5
Florida 110 17609 0.001 7
Nebraska 86 3192 0.005 50
Washington 62 12964 0.001 11
Top States for DIKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 52 2289 0.009 85
Nebraska 86 3192 0.005 50
Wyoming 20 3905 0.004 41
Washington DC 8 7460 0.001 14
Colorado 52 11665 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of DIKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 369 22.38
White (Hispanic) 49 2.97
Mixed Race 42 2.55
Asian/Pacific 17 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,166 70.71

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

Meaning of DIKE in historical publications

DIKE. See Dyke.

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 DIKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DIKE.

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 DIKE

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