The DOBIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	879	26163	0	3
United States (1880 census)	192	19892	0	4
Change since 1880	+687	-6271	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	280	5547	0.002	17
United Kingdom	1,073	4971	0.002	23

Top States for DOBIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	102	14905	0.000	5
California	88	25330	0.000	3
Minnesota	73	10448	0.001	15
Michigan	63	19643	0.001	6
Florida	53	28711	0.000	3
Top States for DOBIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	20	6815	0.002	22
Minnesota	73	10448	0.001	15
Delaware	7	17310	0.001	9
Oklahoma	22	14583	0.001	6
Michigan	63	19643	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of DOBIE

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 DOBIE 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 DOBIE 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 DOBIE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	702	79.86
Black/African American	147	16.72
White (Hispanic)	19	2.16
Mixed Race	8	0.91
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to DOBIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBIE.

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.