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The DOWNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,393 7031 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,564 3700 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +2829 -3331 -0.001 -15
Other Countries
Australia 197 7663 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,823 3187 0.004 40
Top States for DOWNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 394 6258 0.001 12
New York 360 4744 0.002 19
Michigan 355 2909 0.004 36
Florida 323 5440 0.002 20
Georgia 227 3454 0.003 28
Top States for DOWNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 43 2135 0.007 71
New Hampshire 52 3052 0.004 42
Connecticut 140 2861 0.004 41
Michigan 355 2909 0.004 36
Maine 42 3868 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of DOWNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 979 22.29
White (Hispanic) 78 1.78
Mixed Race 74 1.68
Asian/Pacific 20 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,226 73.44

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

Meaning of DOWNER in historical publications

DOWNER. See Downe.

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 DOWNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNER.

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 DOWNER

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