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The DOWNING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 27,879 1154 0.01 103
United States (1880 census) 8,863 677 0.018 177
Change since 1880 +19016 -477 -0.008 -74
Other Countries
Australia 1,201 1376 0.007 73
United Kingdom 6,216 1008 0.014 135
Top States for DOWNING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,239 1469 0.007 66
Ohio 1,909 657 0.017 168
Florida 1,643 1263 0.010 103
Texas 1,640 1518 0.008 79
Illinois 1,121 1096 0.009 90
Top States for DOWNING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 412 424 0.033 333
Vermont 158 612 0.026 260
Maine 300 859 0.024 235
Iowa 617 460 0.021 211
Oklahoma 724 636 0.021 210

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

Classification and Origin of DOWNING

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 DOWNING 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 DOWNING 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 DOWNING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 468 1.68
Mixed Race 440 1.58
Native American/Alaskan 360 1.29
Asian/Pacific 125 0.45
White (Caucasian) 22,947 82.31
Black/African American 3,538 12.69

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

Meaning of DOWNING in historical publications

DOWNING. Tliis common surname is doubtless local, but I cannot ascertain the place.

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 DOWNING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNING.

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 DOWNING

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