The DEARDEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,188	20693	0	4
United States (1880 census)	188	20220	0	4
Change since 1880	+1000	-473	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	226	6751	0.001	14
United Kingdom	2,373	2553	0.005	52

Top States for DEARDEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	224	1323	0.010	100
Massachusetts	136	5863	0.002	21
California	106	21297	0.000	3
Pennsylvania	95	14936	0.001	8
Florida	82	19664	0.001	5
Top States for DEARDEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	224	1323	0.010	100
New Hampshire	35	4602	0.003	28
Massachusetts	136	5863	0.002	21
Idaho	25	7038	0.002	19
Maine	21	6819	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of DEARDEN

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 DEARDEN 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 DEARDEN 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 DEARDEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	23	1.94
White (Hispanic)	12	1.01
Asian/Pacific	7	0.59
White (Caucasian)	1,139	95.88
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of DEARDEN in historical publications

(origin: Local) A corruption of Du-er-den, as still pronounced by the natives of Lancashire, England, where branches of the family reside, and which signifies, "A thicket of wood in a valley." "Doir-den."

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

DEARDEN. Evidently local, perhaps from a place so called near Edenfield in Bury, CO. Lancaster. " The ancient and modern pronunciation of the name by the natJA'cs of Lancashire is Du-er-dcn," which Cowell, with fanciful ingenuity, interprets " a thicket of wood in a valley." See B.L.G. The Deardens of Eochdale Manor claim descent from Eh'as de Duerden, temp. Hen. YI., but so eai-ly as the thirteenth century the name of Durden, Durdent, or Duredent is variously applied to a certain kniglit Mho may have been a progenitor of the family.

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 DEARDEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEARDEN.

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.