The DAHL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,616	1599	0.008	76
United States (1880 census)	1,864	3169	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+18752	+1570	+0.004	+39
Other Countries
Australia	510	3151	0.003	31
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DAHL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	3,757	63	0.076	764
California	2,039	1464	0.006	60
Wisconsin	1,647	238	0.031	307
Washington	1,600	338	0.027	271
Illinois	860	1324	0.007	69
Top States for DAHL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	595	43	0.093	927
Minnesota	3,757	63	0.076	764
South Dakota	315	136	0.042	417
Montana	318	222	0.035	352
Wisconsin	1,647	238	0.031	307

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DAHL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Norway

Language of origin: Norwegian

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	245	1.19
White (Hispanic)	227	1.1
Native American/Alaskan	144	0.7
Asian/Pacific	132	0.64
Black/African American	78	0.38
White (Caucasian)	19,787	95.98

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

Similar names to DAHL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAHL.

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.