The DOBSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,342	1798	0.007	68
United States (1880 census)	4,260	1454	0.009	85
Change since 1880	+14082	-344	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	2,676	588	0.016	164
United Kingdom	15,927	360	0.035	347

Top States for DOBSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,363	1476	0.009	85
California	1,190	2595	0.004	35
Georgia	913	1142	0.011	112
Pennsylvania	911	1577	0.007	74
Texas	904	2494	0.004	43
Top States for DOBSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	640	992	0.016	160
Maine	201	1211	0.016	158
Kentucky	586	977	0.014	145
Oklahoma	491	939	0.014	142
Alaska	80	936	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of DOBSON

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 DOBSON 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 DOBSON 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 DOBSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	290	1.58
White (Hispanic)	266	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	112	0.61
Asian/Pacific	68	0.37
White (Caucasian)	14,652	79.88
Black/African American	2,957	16.12

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

Similar names to DOBSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBSON.

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.