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The DALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,994 1103 0.011 107
United States (1880 census) 6,599 920 0.013 132
Change since 1880 +22395 -183 -0.002 -25
Other Countries
Australia 3,274 465 0.02 200
United Kingdom 16,486 344 0.036 359
Top States for DALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,429 1354 0.007 72
Florida 1,691 1226 0.011 106
Texas 1,648 1516 0.008 79
North Carolina 1,464 798 0.018 182
Illinois 1,275 969 0.010 103
Top States for DALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 160 431 0.026 255
Delaware 163 833 0.021 208
Montana 187 498 0.021 207
Minnesota 914 474 0.019 186
Missouri 1,026 643 0.018 183

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

Classification and Origin of DALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 589 2.03
White (Hispanic) 519 1.79
Mixed Race 464 1.6
Asian/Pacific 194 0.67
White (Caucasian) 23,273 80.27
Black/African American 3,955 13.64

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

Meaning of DALE in historical publications

DALE. A valley. The medieval form was At Dale, softened afterwards to A'Dale, as often found in parisli registers of the XVI. cent., and widely renowned through the ballad of Robin Hood and AUin a'Dale. In the H.R. we find Dc Dale, and De la Dale.

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 DALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DALE.

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 DALE

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