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The DILLON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 48,833 631 0.018 181
United States (1880 census) 11,792 500 0.024 236
Change since 1880 +37041 -131 -0.006 -55
Other Countries
Australia 3,272 467 0.02 200
United Kingdom 6,954 898 0.015 151
Top States for DILLON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 3,565 322 0.031 314
California 3,517 939 0.010 104
New York 2,903 578 0.015 153
Florida 2,734 743 0.017 171
Texas 2,363 1100 0.011 113
Top States for DILLON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,391 153 0.077 769
Mississippi 1,197 357 0.042 421
Virginia 2,287 357 0.032 323
Ohio 3,565 322 0.031 314
Louisiana 1,354 472 0.030 303

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

Classification and Origin of DILLON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 845 1.73
Mixed Race 664 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 488 1
Asian/Pacific 386 0.79
White (Caucasian) 42,016 86.04
Black/African American 4,434 9.08

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

Meaning of DILLON in historical publications

From the Welsh Dillyn, handsome, gallant, brave, fine.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DILLON. The common ancestor of the noble Dillons of Ii'eland was Henry Dillon, who settled in that country in the year 1185. King John, while Earl of Mortain, gave him immense tracts of laud about Drumrany, wliich were afterwards collectiA'ely known as Dillon's country. See Geneal. Hist, of the Fam. of Brabazon, p. 17. Nothing seems to be known of the ancestors of this personage or of the origin of the name.

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 DILLON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DILLON.

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 DILLON

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