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The DILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,562 1877 0.007 65
United States (1880 census) 5,122 1194 0.01 102
Change since 1880 +12440 -683 -0.003 -37
Other Countries
Australia 43 28687 0 3
United Kingdom 234 14925 0.001 5
Top States for DILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,257 2433 0.004 37
Texas 1,113 2089 0.005 53
Ohio 949 1373 0.008 84
Alabama 860 845 0.019 193
South Carolina 815 763 0.020 203
Top States for DILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 377 265 0.048 481
Maine 313 794 0.025 246
Oklahoma 706 629 0.020 205
South Carolina 815 763 0.020 203
Alabama 860 845 0.019 193

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

Classification and Origin of DILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 239 1.36
Mixed Race 218 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 135 0.77
Asian/Pacific 97 0.55
White (Caucasian) 15,792 89.92
Black/African American 1,084 6.17

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

Meaning of DILL in historical publications

DILL. See Dilke. There is, however, a hundred so called in Sussex. Dill without prefix is found in H.R.

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 DILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DILL.

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 DILL

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