The DARK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,868	10294	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	592	8424	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2276	-1870	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	528	3053	0.003	32
United Kingdom	1,236	4400	0.003	27

Top States for DARK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	335	4000	0.004	42
Texas	307	8415	0.001	15
Alabama	249	3330	0.006	56
California	231	15004	0.001	7
Louisiana	205	3844	0.005	46
Top States for DARK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	249	3330	0.006	56
Louisiana	205	3844	0.005	46
North Carolina	335	4000	0.004	42
Washington DC	23	3459	0.004	40
Oklahoma	130	4764	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of DARK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	510	17.78
Asian/Pacific	467	16.28
White (Hispanic)	52	1.81
Mixed Race	39	1.36
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.31
White (Caucasian)	1,791	62.45

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

Similar names to DARK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARK.

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.