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The DOVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,191 3548 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 1,273 4449 0.003 25
Change since 1880 +7918 +901 0 +9
Other Countries
Australia 317 4948 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,514 3721 0.003 33
Top States for DOVER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,157 572 0.029 288
Georgia 1,120 991 0.014 137
North Carolina 767 1628 0.010 95
Alabama 539 1389 0.012 121
California 517 5653 0.002 15
Top States for DOVER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,157 572 0.029 288
Georgia 1,120 991 0.014 137
Alabama 539 1389 0.012 121
North Carolina 767 1628 0.010 95
Arkansas 235 1575 0.009 88

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

Classification and Origin of DOVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 954 10.38
White (Hispanic) 160 1.74
Mixed Race 134 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 84 0.91
Asian/Pacific 40 0.44
White (Caucasian) 7,819 85.07

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

Meaning of DOVER in historical publications

DOVER. The Kentish town.

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 DOVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOVER.

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 DOVER

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