The DORRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,556	4925	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,281	4421	0.003	26
Change since 1880	+5275	-504	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	13	71643	0	1
United Kingdom	96	24168	0	2

Top States for DORRIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,080	828	0.019	190
Texas	598	3854	0.003	29
California	477	6073	0.001	14
Illinois	463	2892	0.004	37
Missouri	377	2012	0.007	67
Top States for DORRIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,080	828	0.019	190
Mississippi	206	1973	0.007	72
Missouri	377	2012	0.007	67
Oklahoma	205	2413	0.006	59
Kentucky	230	2418	0.006	57

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

Classification and Origin of DORRIS

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 DORRIS 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 DORRIS 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 DORRIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	753	11.49
White (Hispanic)	96	1.46
Mixed Race	94	1.43
Asian/Pacific	47	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	36	0.55
White (Caucasian)	5,530	84.35

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

Similar names to DORRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORRIS.

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.