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The DOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,603 2834 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 1,359 4187 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +10244 +1353 +0.001 +16
Other Countries
Australia 192 7846 0.001 12
United Kingdom 2,391 2538 0.005 52
Top States for DOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 885 8046 0.003 26
Florida 851 6107 0.005 53
Massachusetts 817 2843 0.013 129
New York 744 6910 0.004 39
Michigan 741 4283 0.007 75
Top States for DOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 171 1682 0.028 281
Maine 318 1898 0.025 249
North Dakota 144 1799 0.022 224
New Hampshire 230 2204 0.019 186
South Carolina 588 2657 0.015 147

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

Classification and Origin of DOE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 805 6.94
Mixed Race 377 3.25
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.67
White (Caucasian) 6,421 55.34
Black/African American 2,818 24.29
White (Hispanic) 1,103 9.51

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

Meaning of DOE in historical publications

DOE. From the animal, like Hart, Buck, Roe, &c. Those mythical ' parties' to so many legal proceedings. " JonN Doe and Richard Roe," are evidently of forest extraction, aud point to the days when forest laws prevailed and venison was a sacred thing. In H.R. there is a John le Doe.

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 DOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOE.

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 DOE

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