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The DORAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,509 2013 0.006 61
United States (1880 census) 6,101 1003 0.012 122
Change since 1880 +10408 -1010 -0.006 -61
Other Countries
Australia 1,513 1081 0.009 93
United Kingdom 7,298 848 0.016 159
Top States for DORAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,524 1170 0.008 80
California 1,259 2488 0.004 37
Florida 1,158 1767 0.007 72
Pennsylvania 1,080 1304 0.009 88
Illinois 898 1385 0.007 72
Top States for DORAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 88 1230 0.014 145
Connecticut 397 1032 0.012 117
Massachusetts 713 1244 0.011 112
Montana 96 1142 0.011 106
New Hampshire 131 1488 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of DORAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 634 3.84
Black/African American 287 1.74
Mixed Race 201 1.22
Asian/Pacific 130 0.79
Native American/Alaskan 58 0.35
White (Caucasian) 15,198 92.06

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

Meaning of DORAN in historical publications

The son of Dorr. Doran, Gaelic, an otter; Doran, grief, depression of spirits. Dorran, Gaelic, vexation, anger.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to DORAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORAN.

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 DORAN

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