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The DAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,315 12317 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 334 13159 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1981 +842 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 179 8346 0.001 11
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 323 7860 0.001 10
New York 187 9617 0.001 10
Florida 130 12777 0.001 8
Illinois 122 10164 0.001 10
Ohio 96 12700 0.001 8
Top States for DAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 90 4576 0.003 26
Maine 26 5730 0.002 20
Alaska 12 7714 0.002 19
Montana 16 8223 0.002 18
Delaware 13 9312 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of DAN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Vietnam

Language of origin: Vietnamese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DAN 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.

Ethnic distribution of DAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 543 23.46
Native American/Alaskan 305 13.17
Black/African American 131 5.66
Mixed Race 91 3.93
White (Hispanic) 64 2.76
White (Caucasian) 1,181 51.02

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

Meaning of DAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAN.

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 DAN

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