The DENMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,869	5452	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,615	3595	0.003	32
Change since 1880	+4254	-1857	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	694	2322	0.004	42
United Kingdom	1,880	3119	0.004	41

Top States for DENMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,005	2310	0.005	48
Ohio	519	2626	0.005	46
Michigan	391	2943	0.004	39
California	345	7692	0.001	10
Florida	314	6129	0.002	20
Top States for DENMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	269	2617	0.005	50
Texas	1,005	2310	0.005	48
Ohio	519	2626	0.005	46
Washington	255	2850	0.004	43
Michigan	391	2943	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of DENMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	438	7.46
White (Hispanic)	90	1.53
Mixed Race	56	0.95
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.53
Asian/Pacific	18	0.31
White (Caucasian)	5,236	89.21

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

Meaning of DENMAN in historical publications

A denizen; in Welsh, Dinman, the place of a fortress, from din, a fortress, and man, a place. Denman, Saxon, the man of the valley; a dweller in the vale.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

DENMAN. See the termination, den and 31AN. The form in H.R. is Ate Dene. A dweller in a dene or ' den' would be called a Denman or a Denyer. The writer of the article on Surnames in Ediub. Rev. April, 1855, thinks the original Denman ■was a swineherd.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to DENMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENMAN.

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.