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The DUFFEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,000 5345 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 3,181 1919 0.006 64
Change since 1880 +2819 -3426 -0.004 -42
Other Countries
Australia 190 7910 0.001 12
United Kingdom 389 10641 0.001 8
Top States for DUFFEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 591 3874 0.003 28
Georgia 548 1931 0.007 67
Ohio 488 2935 0.004 43
Florida 412 4980 0.003 26
California 392 7164 0.001 12
Top States for DUFFEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 548 1931 0.007 67
Alabama 283 2370 0.006 64
Ohio 488 2935 0.004 43
Missouri 225 3421 0.004 40
Wyoming 19 3639 0.004 38

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

Classification and Origin of DUFFEY

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 DUFFEY 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 DUFFEY 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 DUFFEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 606 10.1
White (Hispanic) 92 1.53
Mixed Race 79 1.32
Asian/Pacific 34 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.4
White (Caucasian) 5,165 86.08

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

Meaning of DUFFEY in historical publications

DUFFEY. Probably D'Auffay, a small tOAvn in Normandy, on the Diejpe and Rouen raihvaj In H.R. Dofi.

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 DUFFEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUFFEY.

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 DUFFEY

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