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The DOCHERTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,280 19515 0 5
United States (1880 census) 132 25909 0 3
Change since 1880 +1148 +6394 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 631 2559 0.004 39
United Kingdom 10,063 594 0.022 219
Top States for DOCHERTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 121 10993 0.001 10
New Jersey 115 7623 0.001 14
Florida 100 15541 0.001 6
New York 97 17300 0.001 5
Michigan 92 12163 0.001 9
Top States for DOCHERTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 23 5309 0.003 29
New Jersey 115 7623 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 121 10993 0.001 10
Michigan 92 12163 0.001 9
Minnesota 43 16354 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of DOCHERTY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 18 1.41
Mixed Race 16 1.25
Asian/Pacific 9 0.7
White (Caucasian) 1,230 96.09
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DOCHERTY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DOCHERTY.

Similar names to DOCHERTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOCHERTY.

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 DOCHERTY

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