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The DOWNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 157 105374 0 1
United States (1880 census) 571 8684 0.001 11
Change since 1880 -414 -96690 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 16 62668 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DOWNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 18 71179 0.000 1
Missouri 14 43716 0.000 3
Washington 14 57220 0.000 2
New Jersey 11 105816 0.000 1
California 10 220978 0.000 0
Top States for DOWNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 14 43716 0.000 3
Washington 14 57220 0.000 2
Kentucky 8 31317 0.000 2
New Jersey 11 105816 0.000 1
Arkansas 3 45404 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of DOWNY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DOWNY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DOWNY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 110 70.06
Black/African American 37 23.57
Mixed Race 5 3.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DOWNY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DOWNY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOWNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNY.

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 DOWNY

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