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The DITTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 461 44027 0 2
United States (1880 census) 105 30536 0 2
Change since 1880 +356 -13491 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 225 6766 0.001 14
United Kingdom 165 18437 0 4
Top States for DITTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 104 7589 0.002 17
Washington 38 19804 0.001 6
New York 31 58204 0.000 2
California 29 74063 0.000 1
Oregon 29 15426 0.001 8
Top States for DITTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 11 6718 0.002 22
Indiana 104 7589 0.002 17
Montana 8 18503 0.001 9
Oregon 29 15426 0.001 8
South Dakota 5 19687 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of DITTON

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 DITTON 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 DITTON 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 DITTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 442 95.88
White (Hispanic) 7 1.52
Mixed Race 5 1.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DITTON in historical publications

DITTON. Parishes in cos. Kent, Lancaster, Cambridge, Surrey, Salop, &c.

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 DITTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DITTON.

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 DITTON

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