The DOUGHTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,525	2862	0.004	43
United States (1880 census)	2,770	2197	0.006	55
Change since 1880	+8755	-665	-0.002	-12
Other Countries
Australia	685	2352	0.004	42
United Kingdom	4,977	1261	0.011	108

Top States for DOUGHTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	879	246	0.069	689
California	788	3847	0.002	23
Texas	702	3304	0.003	34
Ohio	571	2473	0.005	50
Florida	570	3660	0.004	36
Top States for DOUGHTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	879	246	0.069	689
Delaware	123	1132	0.016	157
Louisiana	489	1310	0.011	109
Oklahoma	356	1351	0.010	103
New Hampshire	102	1944	0.008	83

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

Classification and Origin of DOUGHTY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	182	1.58
White (Hispanic)	164	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	71	0.62
Asian/Pacific	50	0.43
White (Caucasian)	9,673	83.93
Black/African American	1,384	12.01

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

Similar names to DOUGHTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGHTY.

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.