The DOBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,408	11903	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	589	8466	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+1819	-3437	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	4	178533	0	0
United Kingdom	8	31544	0	0

Top States for DOBY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	650	1914	0.008	81
Florida	193	10147	0.001	12
Texas	167	10968	0.001	8
Georgia	144	5556	0.002	18
Illinois	131	10749	0.001	11
Top States for DOBY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	650	1914	0.008	81
Mississippi	111	3144	0.004	39
South Carolina	123	4212	0.003	31
Washington DC	17	3472	0.003	30
Georgia	144	5556	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of DOBY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DOBY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DOBY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	40	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.46
Black/African American	1,041	43.23
White (Caucasian)	1,303	54.11
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

DOBY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to DOBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOBY.

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.