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The DEFEO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,803 10513 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) -1 116418 0 0
Change since 1880 +2804 +105905 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 5 135754 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEFEO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 574 1450 0.007 68
New York 494 3628 0.003 26
Florida 290 6292 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 269 5246 0.002 22
Connecticut 254 1585 0.007 75
Top States for DEFEO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 254 1585 0.007 75
New Jersey 574 1450 0.007 68
New Hampshire 58 2904 0.005 47
Massachusetts 229 3529 0.004 36
Rhode Island 34 4226 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of DEFEO

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

Ethnic distribution of DEFEO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 53 1.89
Asian/Pacific 24 0.86
Mixed Race 17 0.61
White (Caucasian) 2,707 96.58
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 DEFEO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of DEFEO in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEFEO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFEO.

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 DEFEO

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