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The DAWLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,261 12566 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 1,053 5226 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +1208 -7340 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DAWLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 279 6577 0.001 15
California 172 13627 0.001 5
Texas 116 13206 0.001 6
Washington 115 6016 0.002 20
Massachusetts 107 7132 0.002 17
Top States for DAWLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 49 3066 0.005 47
Vermont 19 4614 0.003 31
Connecticut 105 4124 0.003 31
South Dakota 22 5760 0.003 29
New Hampshire 30 5170 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of DAWLEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DAWLEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DAWLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 69 3.05
White (Hispanic) 36 1.59
Mixed Race 26 1.15
Asian/Pacific 8 0.35
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.31
White (Caucasian) 2,115 93.54

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

DAWLEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DAWLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DAWLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWLEY.

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 DAWLEY

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