The DRYDEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,209	6073	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	1,549	3732	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+3660	-2341	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	591	2742	0.004	36
United Kingdom	2,342	2579	0.005	51

Top States for DRYDEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	442	6316	0.001	13
Texas	402	5153	0.002	19
Florida	372	5342	0.002	23
Maryland	298	2047	0.006	56
Ohio	291	4798	0.003	26
Top States for DRYDEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	126	1082	0.016	161
Idaho	77	2368	0.006	60
Maryland	298	2047	0.006	56
Oregon	191	2262	0.006	56
Kansas	133	2425	0.005	49

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DRYDEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DRYDEN 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 DRYDEN 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 DRYDEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	342	6.57
White (Hispanic)	101	1.94
Mixed Race	77	1.48
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.52
Asian/Pacific	20	0.38
White (Caucasian)	4,642	89.11

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

Similar names to DRYDEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRYDEN.

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.