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The DOWNS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 33,494 955 0.012 124
United States (1880 census) 10,114 597 0.02 202
Change since 1880 +23380 -358 -0.008 -78
Other Countries
Australia 959 1721 0.006 59
United Kingdom 4,857 1294 0.011 106
Top States for DOWNS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,443 1369 0.007 72
Florida 2,039 1013 0.013 128
Texas 1,997 1279 0.010 96
Kentucky 1,930 298 0.048 478
Ohio 1,530 859 0.013 135
Top States for DOWNS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,930 298 0.048 478
Maine 444 564 0.035 348
Delaware 226 570 0.029 288
Mississippi 808 547 0.028 284
New Hampshire 319 588 0.026 258

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

Classification and Origin of DOWNS

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 DOWNS 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 DOWNS 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 DOWNS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 734 2.19
Mixed Race 459 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 204 0.61
Asian/Pacific 131 0.39
White (Caucasian) 28,701 85.69
Black/African American 3,266 9.75

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

Meaning of DOWNS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOWNS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNS.

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 DOWNS

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