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The DOTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,874 1848 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 6,447 944 0.013 129
Change since 1880 +11427 -904 -0.006 -63
Other Countries
Australia 5 136262 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33054 0 0
Top States for DOTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,572 2043 0.005 46
Texas 1,221 1983 0.006 59
Illinois 1,171 1052 0.009 94
New York 1,086 1689 0.006 57
Indiana 929 761 0.015 153
Top States for DOTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 229 727 0.018 177
Montana 152 668 0.017 168
Indiana 929 761 0.015 153
Iowa 445 696 0.015 152
Oregon 455 881 0.013 133

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

Classification and Origin of DOTY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DOTY 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.

Ethnic distribution of DOTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 533 2.98
White (Hispanic) 270 1.51
Mixed Race 193 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 86 0.48
Asian/Pacific 75 0.42
White (Caucasian) 16,719 93.54

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

Meaning of DOTY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOTY.

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 DOTY

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