The DONALDSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	35,387	897	0.013	131
United States (1880 census)	8,061	747	0.016	161
Change since 1880	+27326	-150	-0.003	-30
Other Countries
Australia	3,534	420	0.022	216
United Kingdom	12,095	486	0.026	263

Top States for DONALDSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	3,255	592	0.020	204
California	2,611	1272	0.008	77
Texas	2,115	1217	0.010	101
Ohio	1,886	679	0.017	166
New York	1,851	972	0.010	98
Top States for DONALDSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,289	590	0.029	290
Georgia	1,775	609	0.022	217
Florida	3,255	592	0.020	204
Washington DC	116	522	0.020	203
Montana	166	601	0.018	184

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

Classification and Origin of DONALDSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	587	1.66
White (Hispanic)	548	1.55
Native American/Alaskan	156	0.44
Asian/Pacific	149	0.42
White (Caucasian)	26,434	74.7
Black/African American	7,513	21.23

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

Similar names to DONALDSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONALDSON.

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.