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The DORWARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 457 44350 0 2
United States (1880 census) 144 24358 0 3
Change since 1880 +313 -19992 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 198 7643 0.001 12
United Kingdom 672 7133 0.001 15
Top States for DORWARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 131 9183 0.001 11
California 61 29004 0.000 2
New York 42 33932 0.000 2
New Jersey 32 23899 0.000 4
Texas 19 45741 0.000 1
Top States for DORWARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 131 9183 0.001 11
New Jersey 32 23899 0.000 4
Montana 3 30205 0.000 3
Missouri 15 29247 0.000 3
Oklahoma 9 22891 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of DORWARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 449 98.25
White (Hispanic) 5 1.09
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of DORWARD in historical publications

DORWARD. See Durward.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DORWARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORWARD.

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 DORWARD

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