The DOWD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,279	2486	0.005	49
United States (1880 census)	4,387	1424	0.009	88
Change since 1880	+8892	-1062	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	869	1888	0.005	53
United Kingdom	1,870	3130	0.004	41

Top States for DOWD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,427	1230	0.008	75
Massachusetts	1,278	639	0.020	201
California	965	3131	0.003	28
Florida	838	2376	0.005	52
New Jersey	761	1126	0.009	90
Top States for DOWD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,278	639	0.020	201
Connecticut	420	927	0.012	123
New Hampshire	147	1293	0.012	119
New Jersey	761	1126	0.009	90
South Carolina	341	1836	0.008	85

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

Classification and Origin of DOWD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	720	5.42
White (Hispanic)	204	1.54
Mixed Race	169	1.27
Asian/Pacific	90	0.68
Native American/Alaskan	88	0.66
White (Caucasian)	12,010	90.44

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

Similar names to DOWD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWD.

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.