The DEWALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,258	9209	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	512	9479	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+2746	+270	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	1	287266	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DEWALD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	417	3649	0.003	34
California	212	11954	0.001	6
Michigan	193	6314	0.002	19
Texas	173	10150	0.001	8
Ohio	167	8034	0.001	15
Top States for DEWALD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	146	478	0.023	227
South Dakota	93	954	0.012	123
Wyoming	23	2825	0.005	47
Nebraska	59	4236	0.003	34
Pennsylvania	417	3649	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of DEWALD

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	31	0.95
White (Hispanic)	30	0.92
Asian/Pacific	12	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.25
Black/African American	5	0.15
White (Caucasian)	3,172	97.36

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

Similar names to DEWALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEWALD.

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.