The DESMARAIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,043	7586	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	101	31357	0	2
Change since 1880	+3942	+23771	+N/A	+13
Other Countries
Australia	15	64348	0	1
United Kingdom	21	28413	0	0

Top States for DESMARAIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,055	755	0.017	166
New Hampshire	467	320	0.038	378
Florida	311	5863	0.002	19
Rhode Island	292	368	0.028	279
California	183	12668	0.001	5
Top States for DESMARAIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	467	320	0.038	378
Rhode Island	292	368	0.028	279
Massachusetts	1,055	755	0.017	166
Vermont	67	1499	0.011	110
Delaware	85	1530	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 DESMARAIS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DESMARAIS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DESMARAIS in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DESMARAIS by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DESMARAIS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	40	0.99
White (Hispanic)	28	0.69
Black/African American	18	0.45
Asian/Pacific	17	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.2
White (Caucasian)	3,932	97.25

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

Similar names to DESMARAIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESMARAIS.

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.