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The DUCKWORTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,762 2803 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 2,607 2339 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +9155 -464 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 668 2416 0.004 41
United Kingdom 4,526 1385 0.01 99
Top States for DUCKWORTH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,056 2301 0.005 51
California 729 4154 0.002 22
Georgia 700 1557 0.009 86
North Carolina 700 1741 0.009 87
Missouri 589 1224 0.011 105
Top States for DUCKWORTH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 586 781 0.021 206
West Virginia 343 833 0.019 190
Missouri 589 1224 0.011 105
Arkansas 236 1560 0.009 88
North Carolina 700 1741 0.009 87

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

Classification and Origin of DUCKWORTH

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 DUCKWORTH 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 DUCKWORTH 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 DUCKWORTH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 206 1.75
Mixed Race 160 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 58 0.49
Asian/Pacific 52 0.44
White (Caucasian) 9,700 82.47
Black/African American 1,586 13.48

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

Meaning of DUCKWORTH in historical publications

DUCKWORTH. Before the time of Henry VIII. it was written Dyhewarde. B.L.G. An officer -who had the care of dykes.

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 DUCKWORTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUCKWORTH.

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 DUCKWORTH

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