The DONELSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,197	9353	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	798	6559	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2399	-2794	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	35816	0	0

Top States for DONELSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	272	5318	0.002	22
Texas	265	7764	0.001	13
Tennessee	191	4096	0.003	34
California	186	14641	0.001	5
Ohio	183	8086	0.002	16
Top States for DONELSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	191	4096	0.003	34
Colorado	141	4340	0.003	33
Oklahoma	101	4768	0.003	29
Mississippi	82	3992	0.003	29
Missouri	158	5085	0.003	28

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

Classification and Origin of DONELSON

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

Ethnic distribution of DONELSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	779	24.37
White (Hispanic)	55	1.72
Mixed Race	41	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.94
Asian/Pacific	14	0.44
White (Caucasian)	2,278	71.25

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

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

Similar names to DONELSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONELSON.

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.