The DESMOND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,233	4514	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	2,886	2112	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+4347	-2402	-0.003	-31
Other Countries
Australia	593	2732	0.004	36
United Kingdom	1,535	3677	0.003	33

Top States for DESMOND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,022	838	0.016	161
California	826	3595	0.002	24
New York	671	2830	0.004	35
Florida	482	4156	0.003	30
Pennsylvania	351	4284	0.003	29
Top States for DESMOND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,022	838	0.016	161
Maine	194	1266	0.015	152
New Hampshire	167	1148	0.014	135
Delaware	104	1321	0.013	133
Connecticut	176	2508	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of DESMOND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	338	4.67
White (Hispanic)	139	1.92
Mixed Race	108	1.49
Asian/Pacific	57	0.79
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.3
White (Caucasian)	6,569	90.82

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

Similar names to DESMOND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESMOND.

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.