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The DESCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,629 16283 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 248 16494 0 5
Change since 1880 +1381 +211 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 13 71664 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DESCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 166 13418 0.001 14
Kansas 147 3466 0.005 55
New Jersey 142 10566 0.002 17
California 135 25601 0.000 4
Illinois 127 15779 0.001 10
Top States for DESCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 147 3466 0.005 55
Vermont 21 6104 0.003 34
Montana 27 8234 0.003 30
Wyoming 9 11613 0.002 18
New Jersey 142 10566 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of DESCH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DESCH surname.

Ethnic distribution of DESCH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 15 0.92
White (Hispanic) 7 0.43
Black/African American 5 0.31
White (Caucasian) 1,596 97.97
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DESCH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DESCH in historical publications

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

Similar names to DESCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESCH.

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 DESCH

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