The DERRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,196	7316	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	1,045	5258	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+3151	-2058	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	102	14072	0.001	6
United Kingdom	1,462	3843	0.003	32

Top States for DERRY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	381	4104	0.003	31
Michigan	285	5134	0.003	29
California	266	11518	0.001	8
Florida	261	8682	0.002	16
Pennsylvania	261	6984	0.002	21
Top States for DERRY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	188	2514	0.006	64
Vermont	36	3276	0.006	59
Idaho	61	3610	0.005	47
Alaska	28	3944	0.004	45
Oregon	127	4164	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of DERRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	677	16.13
White (Hispanic)	82	1.95
Mixed Race	79	1.88
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.71
Asian/Pacific	22	0.52
White (Caucasian)	3,306	78.79

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

Similar names to DERRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DERRY.

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.