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The DORRELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,550 16931 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 309 13968 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1241 -2963 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 132 11166 0.001 8
United Kingdom 727 6727 0.002 16
Top States for DORRELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 223 3231 0.004 40
California 124 18268 0.000 4
Texas 116 13302 0.001 6
South Carolina 108 4296 0.003 27
Oklahoma 102 4190 0.003 30
Top States for DORRELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 34 3774 0.004 43
Missouri 223 3231 0.004 40
Oklahoma 102 4190 0.003 30
South Carolina 108 4296 0.003 27
Wyoming 12 5484 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of DORRELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 65 4.19
Mixed Race 37 2.39
White (Hispanic) 30 1.94
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.9
Asian/Pacific 11 0.71
White (Caucasian) 1,393 89.87

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

Meaning of DORRELL in historical publications

DORRELL. Probably the same as Darell.

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 DORRELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORRELL.

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 DORRELL

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