The DESOUZA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,413	7003	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	11	86660	0	0
Change since 1880	+4402	+79657	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	71	19103	0	4
United Kingdom	449	9572	0.001	10

Top States for DESOUZA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	896	822	0.014	141
Florida	694	2504	0.004	43
California	484	4991	0.001	14
New York	470	3472	0.002	25
New Jersey	348	2272	0.004	41
Top States for DESOUZA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	896	822	0.014	141
Rhode Island	60	2319	0.006	57
Connecticut	168	2232	0.005	49
Florida	694	2504	0.004	43
New Jersey	348	2272	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of DESOUZA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Portugal

Language of origin: Portuguese

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	690	15.64
Mixed Race	669	15.16
Asian/Pacific	582	13.19
White (Hispanic)	477	10.81
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.23
White (Caucasian)	1,985	44.98

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

Similar names to DESOUZA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESOUZA.

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.