The DOWNIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,597	11195	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	487	9895	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+2110	-1300	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	1,416	1155	0.009	87
United Kingdom	4,677	1337	0.01	102

Top States for DOWNIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	235	10357	0.001	7
Ohio	211	6131	0.002	19
New York	189	9550	0.001	10
Massachusetts	183	4355	0.003	29
Florida	174	9953	0.001	11
Top States for DOWNIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	183	4355	0.003	29
Connecticut	83	5205	0.002	24
New Hampshire	26	5731	0.002	21
Alaska	12	7740	0.002	19
Ohio	211	6131	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of DOWNIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	266	10.24
White (Hispanic)	44	1.69
Mixed Race	36	1.39
Asian/Pacific	18	0.69
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.27
White (Caucasian)	2,226	85.71

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

Similar names to DOWNIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNIE.

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.