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The DUFFIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,694 15790 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 607 8256 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1087 -7534 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 42 29410 0 3
United Kingdom 108 23178 0 2
Top States for DUFFIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 233 3707 0.003 28
South Carolina 224 2632 0.006 56
Texas 184 9577 0.001 9
Illinois 124 10551 0.001 10
Alabama 70 5997 0.002 16
Top States for DUFFIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 224 2632 0.006 56
Georgia 233 3707 0.003 28
Delaware 16 8108 0.002 20
Mississippi 47 5370 0.002 17
Alabama 70 5997 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of DUFFIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 945 55.79
Black/African American 692 40.85
White (Hispanic) 29 1.71
Mixed Race 19 1.12
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 DUFFIE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DUFFIE in historical publications

DUFFIE. Scotch. A soft, silly fellow. Jamieson.

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 DUFFIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUFFIE.

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 DUFFIE

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