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The DUNWOODY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,190 20665 0 4
United States (1880 census) 357 12545 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +833 -8120 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 27 41071 0 2
United Kingdom 400 10439 0.001 9
Top States for DUNWOODY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 128 5798 0.002 16
California 105 22122 0.000 3
Florida 97 17616 0.001 6
Ohio 72 17626 0.001 6
Texas 71 20072 0.000 3
Top States for DUNWOODY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 22 6061 0.003 29
North Dakota 15 7338 0.002 23
Vermont 10 7827 0.002 16
Georgia 128 5798 0.002 16
Iowa 43 10521 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of DUNWOODY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 957 80.42
Black/African American 201 16.89
Mixed Race 11 0.92
Asian/Pacific 9 0.76
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DUNWOODY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DUNWOODY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNWOODY.

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 DUNWOODY

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