The DICK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,933	1492	0.008	81
United States (1880 census)	6,324	965	0.013	126
Change since 1880	+15609	-527	-0.005	-45
Other Countries
Australia	2,106	768	0.013	129
United Kingdom	6,541	969	0.014	142

Top States for DICK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	1,764	752	0.016	155
Pennsylvania	1,616	848	0.013	132
California	1,313	2492	0.004	39
Florida	1,114	1919	0.007	70
New York	982	1959	0.005	52
Top States for DICK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	205	304	0.032	319
Kansas	735	355	0.027	273
Kentucky	928	672	0.023	230
Alaska	126	604	0.020	201
Oklahoma	560	860	0.016	162

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

Classification and Origin of DICK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	840	3.83
Black/African American	649	2.96
Mixed Race	307	1.4
White (Hispanic)	285	1.3
Asian/Pacific	125	0.57
White (Caucasian)	19,727	89.94

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

Similar names to DICK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICK.

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.