The DICKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,401	1388	0.009	87
United States (1880 census)	7,043	857	0.014	141
Change since 1880	+16358	-531	-0.005	-54
Other Countries
Australia	145	10180	0.001	9
United Kingdom	524	8559	0.001	11

Top States for DICKEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,430	1079	0.012	117
California	1,743	1900	0.005	51
Ohio	1,315	1032	0.012	116
Florida	1,296	1619	0.008	81
Pennsylvania	1,101	1318	0.009	90
Top States for DICKEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	333	787	0.026	261
Nebraska	322	501	0.019	188
Tennessee	994	901	0.017	175
Arkansas	457	786	0.017	171
Mississippi	460	999	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 DICKEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DICKEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DICKEY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DICKEY by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DICKEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	363	1.55
Mixed Race	316	1.35
Asian/Pacific	117	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	115	0.49
White (Caucasian)	19,713	84.24
Black/African American	2,780	11.88

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

Similar names to DICKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKEY.

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.