The DE BOIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	448	45078	0	2
United States (1880 census)	187	20308	0	4
Change since 1880	+261	-24770	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DE BOIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	60	28711	0.000	3
California	52	39190	0.000	2
Oregon	38	10732	0.001	11
Michigan	34	33315	0.000	3
Washington	27	24204	0.000	5
Top States for DE BOIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oregon	38	10732	0.001	11
Utah	13	13105	0.001	6
New Hampshire	6	23652	0.000	5
Washington	27	24204	0.000	5
Michigan	34	33315	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of DE BOIS

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

Ethnic distribution of DE BOIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	363	81.03
Black/African American	65	14.51
Mixed Race	13	2.9
White (Hispanic)	6	1.34
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to DE BOIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DE BOIS.

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.