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The DORIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,822 14898 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 308 13983 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1514 -915 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 30 38394 0 2
United Kingdom 433 9851 0.001 9
Top States for DORIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 231 8232 0.001 12
California 178 13781 0.001 5
Illinois 151 8571 0.001 12
Florida 135 12964 0.001 8
New Jersey 128 7552 0.002 15
Top States for DORIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 25 6005 0.002 24
Connecticut 61 7459 0.002 18
New Jersey 128 7552 0.002 15
New York 231 8232 0.001 12
Illinois 151 8571 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of DORIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 286 15.7
White (Hispanic) 119 6.53
Mixed Race 23 1.26
Asian/Pacific 8 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.38
White (Caucasian) 1,379 75.69

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

Meaning of DORIS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DORIS.

Similar names to DORIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORIS.

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 DORIS

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