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The DESOTO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,414 11876 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 45 52003 0 1
Change since 1880 +2369 +40127 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 1 287077 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DESOTO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 579 5371 0.002 17
Louisiana 456 1536 0.010 102
Texas 244 8220 0.001 12
Florida 150 12960 0.001 9
New York 108 18817 0.001 6
Top States for DESOTO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 456 1536 0.010 102
Nevada 53 4809 0.003 27
Hawaii 27 4542 0.002 22
Arizona 106 6017 0.002 21
California 579 5371 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 DESOTO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DESOTO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DESOTO in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DESOTO by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DESOTO

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

Ethnic distribution of DESOTO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 967 40.06
Asian/Pacific 55 2.28
Mixed Race 48 1.99
Native American/Alaskan 45 1.86
Black/African American 16 0.66
White (Caucasian) 1,283 53.15

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

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

Meaning of DESOTO in historical publications

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

Similar names to DESOTO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESOTO.

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 DESOTO

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