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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

'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.

Meaning of DESMOND in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for DESMOND

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