The DONEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,683	10888	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	490	9848	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+2193	-1040	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	208	7290	0.001	13
United Kingdom	522	8580	0.001	11

Top States for DONEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	289	337	0.032	320
Pennsylvania	227	7706	0.002	18
Florida	171	12180	0.001	11
Ohio	169	9105	0.001	15
Michigan	159	9149	0.002	16
Top States for DONEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	289	337	0.032	320
Vermont	35	3280	0.006	57
Idaho	47	4554	0.004	36
Alaska	21	5020	0.003	33
Wyoming	16	5000	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of DONEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	370	13.79
White (Hispanic)	64	2.39
Mixed Race	50	1.86
Black/African American	33	1.23
Asian/Pacific	6	0.22
White (Caucasian)	2,160	80.51

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

Similar names to DONEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONEY.

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.