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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

'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.

Meaning of DORRIS in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DORRIS

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