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The DINAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,568 16769 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 486 9902 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1082 -6867 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 108 13386 0.001 7
United Kingdom 219 15587 0 5
Top States for DINAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 173 12613 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 156 10990 0.001 13
Ohio 128 11708 0.001 11
Massachusetts 123 7553 0.002 19
Florida 111 17610 0.001 7
Top States for DINAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 53 3738 0.004 43
Maine 36 5260 0.003 28
Massachusetts 123 7553 0.002 19
Connecticut 63 8420 0.002 18
Delaware 13 10991 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of DINAN

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 DINAN 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 DINAN 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 DINAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 28 1.79
Mixed Race 16 1.02
Black/African American 13 0.83
White (Caucasian) 1,500 95.66
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DINAN in historical publications

DINAN. A town in Brittany, whose viscounts, dating from the end of the tenth century, became ancestors of several noble houses in France, and of Foulke de Dinan, a baron by tenure under the Conqueror. His posterity were barons by writ from 1295 to 1509. The name has been wondei-fully corrupted, having gone through the following changes : Dinan, Dinant, DjTiaunt, Dynliam, Dymaut, Deimoud, Dyamond, Deyman, and Dayman.

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 DINAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DINAN.

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 DINAN

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