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The DEKALB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 243 74164 0 1
United States (1880 census) 50 49224 0 1
Change since 1880 +193 -24940 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 288249 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEKALB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 45 39736 0.000 2
California 31 66386 0.000 1
Illinois 21 57631 0.000 2
Georgia 17 26332 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 14 83565 0.000 1
Top States for DEKALB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 7 27082 0.000 4
Oregon 11 34776 0.000 3
South Carolina 10 26335 0.000 2
New York 45 39736 0.000 2
Colorado 10 48245 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of DEKALB

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

Ethnic distribution of DEKALB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 237 97.53
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of DEKALB in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEKALB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEKALB.

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 DEKALB

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