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The DU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,670 6669 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 4 102658 0 0
Change since 1880 +4666 +95989 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 691 2329 0.004 42
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,794 1885 0.005 53
Texas 333 6162 0.002 16
New York 326 6216 0.002 17
Illinois 187 7336 0.002 15
New Jersey 181 5700 0.002 22
Top States for DU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,794 1885 0.005 53
Washington 176 4403 0.003 30
Massachusetts 159 5449 0.003 25
New Jersey 181 5700 0.002 22
Virginia 138 5797 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 DU live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DU represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DU in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DU by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DU

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

Ethnic distribution of DU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 124 2.66
Mixed Race 56 1.2
White (Hispanic) 32 0.69
Asian/Pacific 4,428 94.82
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 DU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of DU in historical publications

|° DU. The initial syllable of many surnames of Fr. origin naturalized amongst us. It is of course the preposition rZcconjoined with the article le, and answers a purpose similar to that of atte in 0. Eng. surnames; for instance Dubois is 'of the wood,' (our Wood or Attwood) ; Dubosc, 'of the thicket,' (our Shaw); Dubourg, ' of the burg,' (our Burrowes) ; Duchesne and Ducane, ' of the oak,' (our Noakes); Dufour ' of the oven ;' Dufort 'of the fort;' Dupree, Duprej', {pre) 'of the meadow,' (our Mead); Dupuy ' of the well,' (our Wells); Duvall, Duval, 'of the valley,' (our Dale) ; and many others.

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 DU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DU.

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