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The DAO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,163 3994 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 3 103205 0 0
Change since 1880 +8160 +99211 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 719 2249 0.004 44
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DAO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,996 1221 0.009 88
Texas 1,294 2083 0.006 62
Washington 392 2108 0.007 67
Massachusetts 295 3287 0.005 46
Florida 274 7853 0.002 17
Top States for DAO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,996 1221 0.009 88
Washington 392 2108 0.007 67
Texas 1,294 2083 0.006 62
Massachusetts 295 3287 0.005 46
Nevada 92 2889 0.005 46

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

Classification and Origin of DAO

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Vietnam

Language of origin: Vietnamese

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 209 2.56
Mixed Race 197 2.41
White (Hispanic) 88 1.08
Black/African American 54 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.12
Asian/Pacific 7,605 93.16

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

Meaning of DAO in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAO.

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 DAO

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