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The DARWIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,743 15433 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 576 8617 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1167 -6816 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 182 8234 0.001 11
United Kingdom 965 5409 0.002 21
Top States for DARWIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 295 6499 0.001 14
California 201 12407 0.001 6
Alabama 141 3856 0.003 32
Pennsylvania 84 16967 0.001 7
Florida 81 20098 0.001 5
Top States for DARWIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 141 3856 0.003 32
South Carolina 69 5958 0.002 17
North Dakota 10 9837 0.002 16
Minnesota 70 10980 0.001 14
Texas 295 6499 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of DARWIN

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 DARWIN 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 DARWIN 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 DARWIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 181 10.38
White (Hispanic) 54 3.1
Mixed Race 32 1.84
Asian/Pacific 23 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 19 1.09
White (Caucasian) 1,434 82.27

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

Meaning of DARWIN in historical publications

(origin: Welsh.) From Derwin, an oak; local, Derwent, a river in England.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DARWIN. Deorwynwas an A-Sax. femnle name. Ferguson, p. 198.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DARWIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARWIN.

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 DARWIN

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