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The DORMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 677 32129 0 2
United States (1880 census) 216 18256 0 4
Change since 1880 +461 -13873 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 114 12723 0.001 7
United Kingdom 1,185 4574 0.003 26
Top States for DORMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 161 7815 0.001 13
New York 63 24158 0.000 3
Florida 56 23944 0.000 4
California 41 42471 0.000 1
Michigan 36 28486 0.000 4
Top States for DORMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 27 8369 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 161 7815 0.001 13
Oregon 32 11032 0.001 9
Connecticut 17 22261 0.000 5
Maryland 23 18299 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 DORMER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DORMER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DORMER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DORMER by picking someone at random in Nebraska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DORMER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 605 89.36
Black/African American 55 8.12
Mixed Race 10 1.48
White (Hispanic) 5 0.74
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DORMER in historical publications

DORMER. Collins traces Lord Dormer's family no higher than the XV. cent. With tlie origin of the name I am unacquainted.

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 DORMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORMER.

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 DORMER

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