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The DOWDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 409 48469 0 1
United States (1880 census) 94 32778 0 2
Change since 1880 +315 -15691 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 36 33334 0 2
United Kingdom 792 6314 0.002 17
Top States for DOWDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 57 24516 0.000 5
Illinois 56 23465 0.000 5
California 46 46402 0.000 1
New York 26 65186 0.000 1
Ohio 25 44807 0.000 2
Top States for DOWDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 57 24516 0.000 5
Illinois 56 23465 0.000 5
Connecticut 12 38579 0.000 4
Oklahoma 12 22894 0.000 3
Colorado 14 34173 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of DOWDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 375 91.69
Black/African American 14 3.42
Mixed Race 11 2.69
White (Hispanic) 8 1.96
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DOWDS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DOWDS.

Similar names to DOWDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWDS.

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 DOWDS

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