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The DOVE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,106 2351 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 2,725 2226 0.005 55
Change since 1880 +11381 -125 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 618 2612 0.004 38
United Kingdom 4,097 1530 0.009 89
Top States for DOVE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,598 559 0.023 226
Texas 1,130 2196 0.005 54
Maryland 976 596 0.018 184
North Carolina 856 1501 0.011 106
California 826 3771 0.002 24
Top States for DOVE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,598 559 0.023 226
Maryland 976 596 0.018 184
West Virginia 327 881 0.018 181
South Carolina 543 1278 0.014 135
North Carolina 856 1501 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of DOVE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 202 1.43
Mixed Race 185 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.55
Asian/Pacific 63 0.45
White (Caucasian) 11,199 79.39
Black/African American 2,380 16.87

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

Meaning of DOVE in historical publications

DOVE. The bird. Also a beautiful river of Derbyshire.

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 DOVE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOVE.

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 DOVE

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