The DEWITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	25,448	1268	0.009	94
United States (1880 census)	4,992	1230	0.01	100
Change since 1880	+20456	-38	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	23	46411	0	1
United Kingdom	154	19147	0	3

Top States for DEWITT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,974	1666	0.006	58
Michigan	1,835	529	0.018	185
Florida	1,530	1363	0.010	96
Ohio	1,405	930	0.012	124
Texas	1,295	1882	0.006	62
Top States for DEWITT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	352	727	0.028	276
Wyoming	110	467	0.022	223
West Virginia	364	762	0.020	201
Indiana	1,210	564	0.020	199
South Carolina	765	852	0.019	191

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

Classification and Origin of DEWITT

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	400	1.57
Mixed Race	369	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	178	0.7
Asian/Pacific	120	0.47
White (Caucasian)	22,651	89.01
Black/African American	1,728	6.79

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

Similar names to DEWITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEWITT.

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.