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The DONAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 508 40552 0 2
United States (1880 census) 179 20893 0 4
Change since 1880 +329 -19659 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DONAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 141 3936 0.003 27
Delaware 75 1774 0.010 96
Florida 55 26774 0.000 3
Texas 40 29275 0.000 2
New Jersey 37 24582 0.000 4
Top States for DONAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 75 1774 0.010 96
Maryland 141 3936 0.003 27
Alaska 8 12415 0.001 13
New Hampshire 7 20154 0.001 6
West Virginia 8 13671 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of DONAWAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DONAWAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DONAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 435 85.63
Black/African American 49 9.65
Mixed Race 12 2.36
White (Hispanic) 12 2.36
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

DONAWAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DONAWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DONAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONAWAY.

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 DONAWAY

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