The DENNIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	74,784	384	0.028	277
United States (1880 census)	16,751	332	0.034	335
Change since 1880	+58033	-52	-0.006	-58
Other Countries
Australia	4,170	356	0.026	255
United Kingdom	12,874	459	0.028	280

Top States for DENNIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	5,630	434	0.027	270
California	5,148	623	0.015	152
Florida	4,806	374	0.030	301
Ohio	4,154	277	0.037	366
New York	3,517	457	0.019	185
Top States for DENNIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	530	188	0.068	676
South Carolina	2,240	257	0.056	558
Alabama	2,421	279	0.054	544
Oklahoma	1,497	274	0.043	434
Georgia	3,429	279	0.042	419

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

Classification and Origin of DENNIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	538	0.72
Asian/Pacific	329	0.44
White (Caucasian)	51,227	68.5
Black/African American	19,810	26.49
Mixed Race	1,369	1.83
White (Hispanic)	1,518	2.03

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

Similar names to DENNIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENNIS.

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.