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The DOBB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 349 55124 0 1
United States (1880 census) 120 27925 0 2
Change since 1880 +229 -27199 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 71 19113 0 4
United Kingdom 505 8787 0.001 11
Top States for DOBB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 106 14233 0.001 11
Montana 38 4358 0.004 42
Virginia 24 25518 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 18 78666 0.000 1
California 17 129570 0.000 1
Top States for DOBB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 38 4358 0.004 42
Michigan 106 14233 0.001 11
Virginia 24 25518 0.000 3
Utah 7 25258 0.000 3
Connecticut 8 58940 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of DOBB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 307 87.97
Black/African American 28 8.02
Asian/Pacific 5 1.43
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DOBB in historical publications

DOBB. DOBBS. See Robert.

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 DOBB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBB.

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 DOBB

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