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The DEFRIES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 818 27694 0 3
United States (1880 census) 161 22583 0 3
Change since 1880 +657 -5111 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 32 36402 0 2
United Kingdom 142 20199 0 3
Top States for DEFRIES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 86 9194 0.002 17
Illinois 78 17481 0.001 6
Indiana 70 10420 0.001 12
California 68 32990 0.000 2
Arkansas 40 6904 0.001 15
Top States for DEFRIES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 17 8045 0.002 23
Hawaii 24 4756 0.002 20
Minnesota 86 9194 0.002 17
Arkansas 40 6904 0.001 15
Wyoming 7 9833 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of DEFRIES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 748 91.44
Asian/Pacific 31 3.79
Mixed Race 22 2.69
White (Hispanic) 11 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.73
Black/African American Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of DEFRIES in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEFRIES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFRIES.

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 DEFRIES

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