The DEFREITAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,448	11729	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	94	32914	0	2
Change since 1880	+2354	+21185	+N/A	+7
Other Countries
Australia	25	43443	0	2
United Kingdom	206	16168	0	4

Top States for DEFREITAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	426	4141	0.002	22
Florida	414	4486	0.003	26
Massachusetts	344	2372	0.005	54
California	249	9641	0.001	7
New Jersey	157	5696	0.002	19
Top States for DEFREITAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	57	2599	0.005	54
Massachusetts	344	2372	0.005	54
Florida	414	4486	0.003	26
New York	426	4141	0.002	22
New Hampshire	26	5508	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of DEFREITAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Portugal

Language of origin: Portuguese

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	461	18.83
Mixed Race	247	10.09
White (Hispanic)	174	7.11
Asian/Pacific	64	2.61
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.29
White (Caucasian)	1,495	61.07

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

Similar names to DEFREITAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFREITAS.

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.