The DENTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,112	1187	0.01	100
United States (1880 census)	6,513	935	0.013	130
Change since 1880	+20599	-252	-0.003	-30
Other Countries
Australia	1,227	1349	0.008	75
United Kingdom	7,335	842	0.016	160

Top States for DENTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,593	999	0.012	124
Tennessee	2,465	347	0.043	433
North Carolina	1,819	644	0.023	226
California	1,810	1803	0.005	53
Florida	1,231	1669	0.008	77
Top States for DENTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	2,465	347	0.043	433
Oklahoma	906	495	0.026	263
Mississippi	686	646	0.024	241
Arkansas	630	556	0.024	236
North Carolina	1,819	644	0.023	226

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

Classification and Origin of DENTON

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 DENTON 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 DENTON 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 DENTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	507	1.87
Mixed Race	355	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	182	0.67
Asian/Pacific	106	0.39
White (Caucasian)	23,802	87.79
Black/African American	2,158	7.96

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

Similar names to DENTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENTON.

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.