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The DICKINSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 26,144 1230 0.01 97
United States (1880 census) 9,189 653 0.018 184
Change since 1880 +16955 -577 -0.008 -87
Other Countries
Australia 2,385 675 0.015 146
United Kingdom 17,816 312 0.039 388
Top States for DICKINSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,341 1322 0.007 69
Florida 1,666 1171 0.010 104
New York 1,601 1067 0.008 84
Michigan 1,388 692 0.014 140
Texas 1,361 1697 0.007 65
Top States for DICKINSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 410 569 0.032 322
Vermont 166 536 0.027 273
Wyoming 110 421 0.022 223
Washington 1,301 474 0.022 221
Alabama 901 789 0.020 203

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

Classification and Origin of DICKINSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 447 1.71
Mixed Race 350 1.34
Asian/Pacific 149 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 84 0.32
White (Caucasian) 23,930 91.53
Black/African American 1,184 4.53

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

Meaning of DICKINSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to DICKINSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DICKINSON.

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 DICKINSON

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