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The DOVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 343 55849 0 1
United States (1880 census) 149 23787 0 3
Change since 1880 +194 -32062 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 176 8478 0.001 11
United Kingdom 1,448 3881 0.003 32
Top States for DOVEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 56 22862 0.000 5
California 50 38475 0.000 1
Florida 36 37828 0.000 2
Washington 30 20403 0.001 5
New York 24 62696 0.000 1
Top States for DOVEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 10 6055 0.002 20
Washington 30 20403 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 56 22862 0.000 5
Colorado 16 27858 0.000 4
Vermont 2 27624 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of DOVEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 334 97.38
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DOVEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOVEY.

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 DOVEY

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