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The DOSSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,379 18484 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 151 23653 0 3
Change since 1880 +1228 +5169 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DOSSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 430 4821 0.002 21
California 184 13346 0.001 5
Florida 94 17806 0.001 6
Oklahoma 87 4932 0.003 25
Arkansas 51 5446 0.002 19
Top States for DOSSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 87 4932 0.003 25
Texas 430 4821 0.002 21
Arkansas 51 5446 0.002 19
New Mexico 29 5353 0.002 16
Kentucky 50 7149 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 DOSSEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DOSSEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DOSSEY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DOSSEY by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DOSSEY

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

Ethnic distribution of DOSSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 37 2.68
Mixed Race 16 1.16
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.87
Asian/Pacific 6 0.44
Black/African American 6 0.44
White (Caucasian) 1,302 94.42

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

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

Meaning of DOSSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOSSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOSSEY.

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 DOSSEY

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