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The DOSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,002 7666 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 692 7430 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +3310 -236 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DOSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 630 1739 0.008 77
North Carolina 372 3005 0.005 46
Florida 317 6463 0.002 20
South Carolina 254 2466 0.006 63
Michigan 197 6484 0.002 20
Top States for DOSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 630 1739 0.008 77
South Carolina 254 2466 0.006 63
North Carolina 372 3005 0.005 46
Alabama 190 3262 0.004 43
Mississippi 92 3541 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of DOSTER

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

Ethnic distribution of DOSTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 635 15.87
Mixed Race 54 1.35
White (Hispanic) 50 1.25
Asian/Pacific 13 0.32
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.32
White (Caucasian) 3,237 80.88

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

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

Meaning of DOSTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOSTER.

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 DOSTER

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