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The DOUGLASS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,236 2329 0.005 53
United States (1880 census) 14,729 391 0.029 295
Change since 1880 -493 -1938 -0.024 -242
Other Countries
Australia 1,106 1500 0.007 68
United Kingdom 1,736 3312 0.004 38
Top States for DOUGLASS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,491 2056 0.004 44
Texas 963 2359 0.005 46
Pennsylvania 896 1581 0.007 73
Florida 804 2457 0.005 50
New York 710 2576 0.004 37
Top States for DOUGLASS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 387 623 0.030 304
Vermont 84 1249 0.014 138
Idaho 132 1265 0.010 102
Wyoming 48 1167 0.010 97
Tennessee 540 1530 0.009 95

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

Classification and Origin of DOUGLASS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 208 1.46
Mixed Race 192 1.35
Asian/Pacific 67 0.47
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.27
White (Caucasian) 12,017 84.41
Black/African American 1,713 12.03

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

Meaning of DOUGLASS in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic. Local) The dark green river, from Dhu, black, dark, and glass, green. A river of Scotland which flows into the Clyde. A town of Lanarkshire. The tradition of the origin of the name is this: in the year 770, a man of rank and figure came seasonably to the assistance of Solvatius, King of Scotland, whose territory was then invaded by Donald Bain, of the Western Isles. The victory being obtained, the King was desirous to see the man who had done him so signal a service, and he was pointed out to him in these words, in the Gaelic, "Sholto Dhuglass," "behold that dark, or swarthy, man."

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to DOUGLASS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGLASS.

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 DOUGLASS

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