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The DOLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 27,252 1179 0.01 101
United States (1880 census) 10,727 551 0.021 215
Change since 1880 +16525 -628 -0.011 -114
Other Countries
Australia 1,063 1555 0.007 65
United Kingdom 6,797 928 0.015 148
Top States for DOLAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,801 560 0.015 148
Massachusetts 2,081 349 0.033 328
California 2,033 1567 0.006 60
Pennsylvania 1,966 610 0.016 160
Florida 1,758 1131 0.011 110
Top States for DOLAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,081 349 0.033 328
Rhode Island 290 411 0.028 277
New Hampshire 299 596 0.024 242
New Jersey 1,723 408 0.020 205
Vermont 122 805 0.020 200

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

Classification and Origin of DOLAN

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 DOLAN 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 DOLAN 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 DOLAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 398 1.46
Mixed Race 267 0.98
Asian/Pacific 164 0.6
Black/African American 90 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 87 0.32
White (Caucasian) 26,249 96.32

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

Meaning of DOLAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOLAN.

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 DOLAN

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