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The DYKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,005 6271 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 1,204 4668 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +3801 -1603 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 434 3649 0.003 27
United Kingdom 3,746 1666 0.008 82
Top States for DYKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 448 3161 0.004 39
Michigan 369 3240 0.004 37
Florida 320 6169 0.002 20
California 306 8742 0.001 9
Tennessee 298 2690 0.005 52
Top States for DYKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 110 2062 0.009 86
New Hampshire 73 2542 0.006 59
North Dakota 35 3161 0.005 55
Tennessee 298 2690 0.005 52
Vermont 31 3173 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of DYKE

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 DYKE 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 DYKE 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 DYKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 171 3.42
White (Hispanic) 76 1.52
Mixed Race 60 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 34 0.68
Asian/Pacific 18 0.36
White (Caucasian) 4,646 92.83

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

Meaning of DYKE in historical publications

(origin: Local) A name given to one who lived near a ditch, bank, or entrenchment, as "John at the dyke."

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DYKE. See Dykes. The baronets of Sussex and Kent sprang from the family of Dykes of Cumberland.

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 DYKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DYKE.

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 DYKE

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