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The DESAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,057 2540 0.005 48
United States (1880 census) -1 116326 0 0
Change since 1880 +13058 +113786 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 124 11790 0.001 8
United Kingdom 2,700 2303 0.006 59
Top States for DESAI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 2,361 256 0.028 281
California 2,029 1425 0.006 60
Illinois 1,132 962 0.009 91
Texas 986 2146 0.005 47
Georgia 666 1400 0.008 81
Top States for DESAI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 2,361 256 0.028 281
Illinois 1,132 962 0.009 91
Georgia 666 1400 0.008 81
Delaware 58 2122 0.007 74
Connecticut 242 1593 0.007 71

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of DESAI

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DESAI 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.

Ethnic distribution of DESAI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 578 4.43
White (Caucasian) 379 2.9
White (Hispanic) 55 0.42
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.28
Black/African American 33 0.25
Asian/Pacific 11,976 91.72

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

Meaning of DESAI in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DESAI.

Similar names to DESAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESAI.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DESAI

The following words are slight variants of DESAI that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.