The DOUGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,301	9100	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	913	5893	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+2388	-3207	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	221	6863	0.001	14
United Kingdom	2,449	2501	0.005	53

Top States for DOUGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	332	8220	0.001	10
Arkansas	228	1593	0.009	85
Missouri	218	3477	0.004	39
Texas	194	9346	0.001	9
Pennsylvania	168	9052	0.001	14
Top States for DOUGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	228	1593	0.009	85
Kansas	110	3044	0.004	41
Missouri	218	3477	0.004	39
Connecticut	100	4645	0.003	29
Rhode Island	22	6893	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of DOUGAN

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 DOUGAN 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 DOUGAN 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 DOUGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	143	4.33
Mixed Race	70	2.12
White (Hispanic)	50	1.51
Asian/Pacific	24	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.42
White (Caucasian)	3,000	90.88

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

Similar names to DOUGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGAN.

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.