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The DREYFUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 825 27496 0 3
United States (1880 census) 243 16734 0 5
Change since 1880 +582 -10762 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 10 89176 0 1
United Kingdom 21 28442 0 0
Top States for DREYFUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 116 17755 0.000 3
New York 95 16956 0.001 5
Florida 93 15931 0.001 6
Massachusetts 51 12947 0.001 8
Wisconsin 51 14955 0.001 10
Top States for DREYFUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 51 14955 0.001 10
Delaware 7 15172 0.001 9
Massachusetts 51 12947 0.001 8
Connecticut 22 18278 0.001 6
Florida 93 15931 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of DREYFUS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DREYFUS 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.

Ethnic distribution of DREYFUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 773 93.7
White (Hispanic) 39 4.73
Asian/Pacific 7 0.85
Mixed Race 5 0.61
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DREYFUS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DREYFUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DREYFUS.

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 DREYFUS

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