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The DODDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,534 3817 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,640 2317 0.005 53
Change since 1880 +5894 -1500 -0.002 -21
Other Countries
Australia 1,609 1014 0.01 98
United Kingdom 8,965 667 0.02 195
Top States for DODDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 882 3586 0.003 26
Ohio 730 1979 0.006 64
Texas 584 3980 0.003 28
Pennsylvania 491 3275 0.004 40
Florida 476 4496 0.003 30
Top States for DODDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 235 1605 0.008 80
Kansas 214 1522 0.008 80
Wyoming 37 1778 0.007 75
Alaska 43 2114 0.007 69
Ohio 730 1979 0.006 64

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

Classification and Origin of DODDS

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 DODDS 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 DODDS 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 DODDS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 643 7.53
White (Hispanic) 125 1.46
Mixed Race 90 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.47
Asian/Pacific 28 0.33
White (Caucasian) 7,608 89.15

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

Meaning of DODDS in historical publications

DODD. DODDS. Doda, an A -Sax. personal name, whence Dodds, Dodson, &c. Its forms in the H.R. are Dod and Dodde, and in Domesd. Doda, Dode, and Dodo.

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 DODDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DODDS.

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 DODDS

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