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The DEWEESE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,094 5259 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 589 8461 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +5505 +3202 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEWEESE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 540 1118 0.013 134
Indiana 531 1457 0.009 87
Ohio 462 3151 0.004 41
California 399 7085 0.001 12
Florida 306 6594 0.002 19
Top States for DEWEESE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 540 1118 0.013 134
West Virginia 183 1467 0.010 101
Indiana 531 1457 0.009 87
Kansas 158 2063 0.006 59
Missouri 262 2937 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of DEWEESE

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

Ethnic distribution of DEWEESE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 77 1.26
Mixed Race 69 1.13
White (Hispanic) 64 1.05
Asian/Pacific 20 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.33
White (Caucasian) 5,844 95.9

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

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

Meaning of DEWEESE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEWEESE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEWEESE.

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 DEWEESE

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