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The DOUGLAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 96,425 286 0.036 357
United States (1880 census) 12,668 464 0.025 253
Change since 1880 +83757 +178 +0.011 +104
Other Countries
Australia 6,928 184 0.042 424
United Kingdom 23,695 223 0.052 516
Top States for DOUGLAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 7,092 349 0.034 340
Florida 7,075 247 0.044 443
California 6,735 473 0.020 199
New York 4,981 304 0.026 262
Tennessee 4,793 148 0.084 842
Top States for DOUGLAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 4,793 148 0.084 842
Washington DC 458 105 0.080 801
South Carolina 2,600 219 0.065 648
Mississippi 1,721 234 0.060 605
Louisiana 2,516 226 0.056 563

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

Classification and Origin of DOUGLAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 656 0.68
Asian/Pacific 415 0.43
White (Caucasian) 59,147 61.34
Black/African American 32,293 33.49
Mixed Race 1,948 2.02
White (Hispanic) 1,977 2.05

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

Meaning of DOUGLAS in historical publications

DOUGLAS. The most powerful and widely celebrated famil3'that Scotland ever produced. The name was assumed from lands on the small river Douglas, in Lanarkshire, (Gael, diif-glas, du-cjlas, i.e., dark grey, from the colour of its waters), where William of Dufglaswas established as early as 1175. This illustrious race, renowned throughout western Europe for its romantic career, may well be accounted an "historical " family, for as Hume, the annalist of the House, has it —

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 DOUGLAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGLAS.

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 DOUGLAS

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