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The DORRANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,068 22481 0 4
United States (1880 census) 297 14373 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +771 -8108 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 1 286151 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DORRANCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Colorado 118 4861 0.003 27
California 115 21134 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 77 19112 0.001 6
Michigan 68 19324 0.001 7
New York 68 27775 0.000 4
Top States for DORRANCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Colorado 118 4861 0.003 27
Rhode Island 28 5786 0.003 27
New Mexico 22 7133 0.001 12
Iowa 31 14409 0.001 11
Massachusetts 59 13438 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of DORRANCE

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

Ethnic distribution of DORRANCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 922 86.33
White (Hispanic) 121 11.33
Mixed Race 12 1.12
Asian/Pacific 7 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.56
Black/African American Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of DORRANCE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DORRANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORRANCE.

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 DORRANCE

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