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The DOWDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,249 2494 0.005 49
United States (1880 census) 2,087 2865 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +11162 +371 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 164 9060 0.001 10
United Kingdom 166 18343 0 4
Top States for DOWDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,427 637 0.020 202
Texas 1,130 2223 0.005 54
Georgia 1,048 1079 0.013 128
North Carolina 962 1355 0.012 120
Tennessee 941 982 0.017 165
Top States for DOWDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,427 637 0.020 202
Tennessee 941 982 0.017 165
Kentucky 535 1149 0.013 132
Georgia 1,048 1079 0.013 128
Mississippi 359 1256 0.013 126

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

Classification and Origin of DOWDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 189 1.43
Mixed Race 178 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 109 0.82
Asian/Pacific 25 0.19
White (Caucasian) 10,404 78.53
Black/African American 2,345 17.7

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

Meaning of DOWDY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOWDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWDY.

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 DOWDY

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