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

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 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.

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.