The DENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,082	2354	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	3,670	1670	0.007	73
Change since 1880	+10412	-684	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	1,789	909	0.011	109
United Kingdom	7,090	880	0.015	154

Top States for DENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,181	961	0.014	144
California	929	3425	0.003	27
Florida	791	2729	0.005	49
Texas	779	3099	0.004	37
Ohio	763	1893	0.007	67
Top States for DENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	324	900	0.018	179
Georgia	1,181	961	0.014	144
Washington DC	77	885	0.013	135
Mississippi	341	1314	0.012	120
Maryland	574	1100	0.011	108

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

Classification and Origin of DENT

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 DENT 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 DENT 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 DENT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	220	1.56
White (Hispanic)	203	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	63	0.45
Asian/Pacific	52	0.37
White (Caucasian)	8,346	59.27
Black/African American	5,198	36.91

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

Similar names to DENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENT.

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.