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The DOBBINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,615 2279 0.005 54
United States (1880 census) 3,634 1689 0.007 73
Change since 1880 +10981 -590 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 179 8348 0.001 11
United Kingdom 941 5531 0.002 20
Top States for DOBBINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,099 2906 0.003 32
North Carolina 1,052 1177 0.013 131
Texas 1,045 2306 0.005 50
Ohio 1,040 1312 0.009 92
Alabama 843 915 0.019 190
Top States for DOBBINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 843 915 0.019 190
Arkansas 456 778 0.017 171
West Virginia 259 1067 0.014 143
North Carolina 1,052 1177 0.013 131
South Carolina 518 1309 0.013 129

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

Classification and Origin of DOBBINS

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 DOBBINS 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 DOBBINS 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 DOBBINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 251 1.72
White (Hispanic) 172 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 104 0.71
Asian/Pacific 54 0.37
White (Caucasian) 10,689 73.14
Black/African American 3,344 22.88

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

Meaning of DOBBINS in historical publications

DOBBIN. DOBBINS. 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 DOBBINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBBINS.

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 DOBBINS

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