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The DRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,070 9708 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 777 6732 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +2293 -2976 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 111 13019 0.001 7
United Kingdom 584 7967 0.001 13
Top States for DRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 470 6009 0.002 23
North Carolina 355 3855 0.004 44
Oklahoma 322 2111 0.009 93
Pennsylvania 299 7203 0.002 24
Florida 193 13061 0.001 12
Top States for DRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 322 2111 0.009 93
North Carolina 355 3855 0.004 44
Missouri 167 6158 0.003 30
Pennsylvania 299 7203 0.002 24
Mississippi 69 5283 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of DRY

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 DRY 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 DRY 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 DRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 222 7.23
Native American/Alaskan 166 5.41
Mixed Race 62 2.02
White (Hispanic) 36 1.17
Asian/Pacific 18 0.59
White (Caucasian) 2,566 83.58

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

Meaning of DRY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRY.

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 DRY

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