The DARE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,338	9004	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,143	4874	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+2195	-4130	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	995	1664	0.006	61
United Kingdom	1,765	3267	0.004	38

Top States for DARE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	486	6060	0.001	14
New Jersey	254	4013	0.003	30
Illinois	251	5473	0.002	20
Florida	204	9607	0.001	13
Pennsylvania	187	8476	0.002	15
Top States for DARE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	254	4013	0.003	30
Maryland	119	5143	0.002	22
Delaware	17	8080	0.002	22
Missouri	115	6586	0.002	21
Illinois	251	5473	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of DARE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	193	5.78
Black/African American	154	4.61
White (Hispanic)	75	2.25
Mixed Race	42	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.72
White (Caucasian)	2,850	85.38

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

Similar names to DARE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARE.

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.