The DEMPSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	26,403	1215	0.01	98
United States (1880 census)	5,927	1040	0.012	119
Change since 1880	+20476	-175	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	1,961	829	0.012	120
United Kingdom	5,520	1132	0.012	120

Top States for DEMPSEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,875	1083	0.012	117
New York	1,618	1106	0.009	85
California	1,558	2038	0.005	46
Texas	1,554	1576	0.007	75
Pennsylvania	1,511	873	0.012	123
Top States for DEMPSEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	265	449	0.034	338
West Virginia	534	506	0.030	295
Alabama	932	799	0.021	210
South Carolina	650	995	0.016	162
Georgia	1,269	850	0.016	155

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

Classification and Origin of DEMPSEY

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 DEMPSEY 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 DEMPSEY 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 DEMPSEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	399	1.51
Mixed Race	327	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	209	0.79
Asian/Pacific	116	0.44
White (Caucasian)	23,926	90.62
Black/African American	1,426	5.4

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

Similar names to DEMPSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEMPSEY.

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.