The DOBBS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,021	1829	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	3,348	1831	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+14673	+2	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	379	4181	0.002	23
United Kingdom	2,941	2103	0.006	64

Top States for DOBBS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,924	1342	0.009	92
Georgia	1,657	664	0.020	202
Alabama	1,217	649	0.027	274
California	1,142	2842	0.003	34
Florida	1,018	2087	0.006	64
Top States for DOBBS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,217	649	0.027	274
Oklahoma	892	526	0.026	259
Georgia	1,657	664	0.020	202
Mississippi	528	873	0.019	186
Arkansas	490	738	0.018	183

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DOBBS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	299	1.66
Mixed Race	263	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	148	0.82
Asian/Pacific	63	0.35
White (Caucasian)	15,138	84
Black/African American	2,110	11.71

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

Similar names to DOBBS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBBS.

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.