The DENNISTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,010	13806	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	541	9062	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+1469	-4744	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	38	31818	0	2
United Kingdom	154	19152	0	3

Top States for DENNISTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	181	13856	0.001	5
New York	173	11201	0.001	9
Ohio	141	9532	0.001	12
Kentucky	125	3822	0.003	31
Texas	114	14102	0.001	5
Top States for DENNISTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	125	3822	0.003	31
Wyoming	14	4992	0.003	28
Iowa	66	6982	0.002	23
Nebraska	37	7539	0.002	22
Maine	21	7106	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of DENNISTON

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 DENNISTON 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 DENNISTON 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 DENNISTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	33	1.64
Black/African American	32	1.59
Mixed Race	31	1.54
Asian/Pacific	7	0.35
White (Caucasian)	1,907	94.88
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to DENNISTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENNISTON.

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.