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The DAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,636 11060 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 2 107029 0 0
Change since 1880 +2634 +95969 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 286 5442 0.002 17
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DAI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 858 3138 0.003 25
New York 409 4078 0.002 22
Texas 204 7854 0.001 10
New Jersey 146 5807 0.002 17
Illinois 88 12986 0.001 7
Top States for DAI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 858 3138 0.003 25
New York 409 4078 0.002 22
New Jersey 146 5807 0.002 17
Maryland 78 6370 0.001 15
Nevada 29 6773 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 DAI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DAI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DAI in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DAI by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DAI

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 152 5.77
Mixed Race 28 1.06
White (Hispanic) 12 0.46
Black/African American 10 0.38
Asian/Pacific 2,434 92.34
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of DAI in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAI.

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 DAI

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