The DOLPHIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,818	14932	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	465	10258	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1353	-4674	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	234	6542	0.001	14
United Kingdom	1,375	4034	0.003	30

Top States for DOLPHIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	198	4303	0.004	37
Iowa	176	2407	0.006	60
New York	169	12245	0.001	9
California	165	15997	0.000	5
Pennsylvania	131	12238	0.001	11
Top States for DOLPHIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	176	2407	0.006	60
Delaware	30	4888	0.004	38
Wisconsin	198	4303	0.004	37
Alaska	20	5019	0.003	32
Washington DC	11	5149	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of DOLPHIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	408	22.44
White (Hispanic)	50	2.75
Mixed Race	33	1.82
Asian/Pacific	10	0.55
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.28
White (Caucasian)	1,312	72.17

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

Similar names to DOLPHIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOLPHIN.

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.