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The DON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,504 11523 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 327 13383 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +2177 +1860 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 352 4505 0.002 22
United Kingdom 765 6472 0.002 17
Top States for DON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 476 5623 0.001 14
Texas 236 7518 0.001 11
Florida 200 8840 0.001 13
New York 166 10856 0.001 9
Arizona 120 4696 0.002 23
Top States for DON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 120 4696 0.002 23
Alaska 14 6378 0.002 22
Wyoming 9 7547 0.002 18
Oregon 53 7691 0.002 15
California 476 5623 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of DON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 369 14.74
White (Hispanic) 354 14.14
Black/African American 239 9.54
Mixed Race 71 2.84
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.72
White (Caucasian) 1,453 58.03

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

Meaning of DON in historical publications

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

Similar names to DON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DON.

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 DON

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