The DARLING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,855	1849	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	7,329	828	0.015	147
Change since 1880	+10526	-1021	-0.008	-81
Other Countries
Australia	779	2079	0.005	48
United Kingdom	3,016	2052	0.007	66

Top States for DARLING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,803	971	0.010	95
California	1,730	1847	0.005	51
Michigan	1,502	660	0.015	151
Florida	1,210	1671	0.008	76
Massachusetts	810	1089	0.013	128
Top States for DARLING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	211	408	0.035	347
Maine	402	617	0.032	315
New Hampshire	218	866	0.018	176
Michigan	1,502	660	0.015	151
Delaware	104	1320	0.013	133

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

Classification and Origin of DARLING

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 DARLING 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 DARLING 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 DARLING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	270	1.51
Mixed Race	264	1.48
Asian/Pacific	104	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	96	0.54
White (Caucasian)	15,970	89.44
Black/African American	1,150	6.44

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

Similar names to DARLING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARLING.

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.