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The DRYSDALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,912 14357 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 380 11957 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1532 -2400 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 899 1822 0.005 55
United Kingdom 2,667 2324 0.006 58
Top States for DRYSDALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 209 11792 0.001 6
New York 156 11821 0.001 8
Florida 154 11408 0.001 10
Missouri 129 5426 0.002 23
Texas 114 13665 0.001 5
Top States for DRYSDALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 86 3174 0.004 39
Delaware 21 6115 0.003 27
Missouri 129 5426 0.002 23
Montana 20 6821 0.002 22
Maine 24 6327 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of DRYSDALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 183 9.57
White (Hispanic) 27 1.41
Mixed Race 24 1.26
White (Caucasian) 1,666 87.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DRYSDALE in historical publications

DRYSDALE. Dryfesdale, a parish in Dumfrieshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DRYSDALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRYSDALE.

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 DRYSDALE

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