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The DOLLAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,289 5120 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 899 5965 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +5390 +845 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 41 29825 0 3
United Kingdom 76 24978 0 2
Top States for DOLLAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 868 1231 0.011 106
Alabama 685 1101 0.015 154
Texas 635 3590 0.003 30
Florida 422 4809 0.003 26
California 389 7126 0.001 11
Top States for DOLLAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 685 1101 0.015 154
Arkansas 350 1026 0.013 131
Georgia 868 1231 0.011 106
Mississippi 221 1819 0.008 78
Oklahoma 178 2700 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of DOLLAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 302 4.8
Mixed Race 115 1.83
White (Hispanic) 76 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 56 0.89
Asian/Pacific 27 0.43
White (Caucasian) 5,713 90.84

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

Meaning of DOLLAR in historical publications

DOLLAR. A town and parish in Clackmannanshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DOLLAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOLLAR.

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 DOLLAR

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