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The DONKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 306 61376 0 1
United States (1880 census) 39 56270 0 1
Change since 1880 +267 -5106 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 322 4902 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,632 3489 0.004 36
Top States for DONKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 40 27667 0.000 3
California 37 46397 0.000 1
Florida 28 42016 0.000 2
Tennessee 19 15534 0.000 3
Colorado 17 23716 0.000 4
Top States for DONKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oregon 17 19270 0.000 5
Colorado 17 23716 0.000 4
Utah 8 17822 0.000 4
Connecticut 12 30374 0.000 4
Nebraska 6 27170 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of DONKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 300 98.04
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DONKIN in historical publications

DONKIN. See Donald and Duncan.

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 DONKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONKIN.

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 DONKIN

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