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The DUCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,242 7253 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,204 4673 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +3038 -2580 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 757 2150 0.005 46
United Kingdom 1,213 4470 0.003 26
Top States for DUCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 379 4241 0.003 31
Texas 359 5846 0.002 17
Alabama 329 2165 0.007 74
Georgia 271 3455 0.003 33
Louisiana 261 2415 0.006 58
Top States for DUCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 329 2165 0.007 74
Mississippi 184 2171 0.006 65
Louisiana 261 2415 0.006 58
Arkansas 133 2733 0.005 50
Oklahoma 149 3271 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of DUCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 631 14.88
White (Hispanic) 74 1.74
Mixed Race 61 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.97
Asian/Pacific 34 0.8
White (Caucasian) 3,401 80.17

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

Meaning of DUCK in historical publications

DUCK. Most likely Le Due, 'the duke,' as written in H.E.

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 DUCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUCK.

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 DUCK

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