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The DORSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 309 60887 0 1
United States (1880 census) 555 8882 0.001 11
Change since 1880 -246 -52005 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 1 286163 0 0
United Kingdom 39 26824 0 1
Top States for DORSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 32 60368 0.000 2
Florida 27 59583 0.000 2
Massachusetts 23 34944 0.000 4
Missouri 20 30710 0.000 4
Texas 20 56664 0.000 1
Top States for DORSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 7 11643 0.001 14
New Hampshire 16 10688 0.001 13
Nevada 9 27402 0.000 5
Rhode Island 4 29581 0.000 4
Massachusetts 23 34944 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 DORSON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DORSON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DORSON in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DORSON by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DORSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DORSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of DORSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 254 82.2
Black/African American 43 13.92
Mixed Race 8 2.59
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DORSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DORSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to DORSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORSON.

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 DORSON

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