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The DITCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,070 22443 0 4
United States (1880 census) 339 13022 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +731 -9421 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 8 107613 0 0
United Kingdom 255 14139 0.001 6
Top States for DITCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 138 5636 0.002 25
Pennsylvania 105 14942 0.001 9
New York 94 21157 0.000 5
Illinois 79 18009 0.001 6
Iowa 61 7941 0.002 21
Top States for DITCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 138 5636 0.002 25
Iowa 61 7941 0.002 21
Kansas 38 9219 0.001 14
Louisiana 49 9863 0.001 11
North Dakota 6 14701 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of DITCH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 24 2.24
Mixed Race 13 1.21
Black/African American 9 0.84
White (Caucasian) 1,017 95.05
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DITCH in historical publications

DITCH. From residence in or near the ditch of a fortified town, like the French De la Fosse. Its forms in the H.R. are De Fossa, De la Fosse, &c., and there is one unlucky wight called " Absolon in le Dyche."

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 DITCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DITCH.

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 DITCH

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