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The DABNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,878 4712 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 2,264 2679 0.005 45
Change since 1880 +4614 -2033 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 49 26151 0 1
Top States for DABNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 940 1032 0.013 133
Texas 783 3138 0.004 38
California 443 6681 0.001 13
Florida 330 6374 0.002 21
Louisiana 325 2031 0.007 73
Top States for DABNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 940 1032 0.013 133
Washington DC 52 1249 0.009 91
Louisiana 325 2031 0.007 73
Kentucky 194 2790 0.005 48
Alaska 30 3235 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of DABNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 144 2.09
White (Hispanic) 87 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.42
Asian/Pacific 27 0.39
Black/African American 3,785 55.03
White (Caucasian) 2,806 40.8

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

Meaning of DABNEY in historical publications

(origin: Nor. Fr. Local) A corruption of D'Aubigne; from Aubigne, a town in the department of Cher, France.

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


DABNEY. a corruption of D'Aubigne.

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 DABNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DABNEY.

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 DABNEY

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