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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

'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.

Meaning of DICK in historical publications

The familiar abbreviation of Richard. It may come from the Dutch Dyck, a bank or dike, a bulwark thrown up in the Low Countries against the sea or rivers to prevent inundation.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DICK. See Richard.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DICK

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