The DAWS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,305	19232	0	5
United States (1880 census)	530	9228	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+775	-10004	+N/A	-6
Other Countries
Australia	362	4386	0.002	22
United Kingdom	1,079	4944	0.002	23

Top States for DAWS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	133	13567	0.001	6
Georgia	104	7297	0.001	13
Michigan	89	15856	0.001	9
Florida	86	21415	0.001	5
Tennessee	77	7627	0.001	14
Top States for DAWS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	25	5163	0.004	39
Delaware	21	7153	0.003	27
Oklahoma	55	7978	0.002	16
Iowa	46	11104	0.002	16
Tennessee	77	7627	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of DAWS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	57	4.37
White (Hispanic)	26	1.99
Mixed Race	18	1.38
Asian/Pacific	11	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.84
White (Caucasian)	1,182	90.57

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

Similar names to DAWS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAWS.

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.