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The DUFFIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,538 11385 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 576 8612 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1962 -2773 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 345 4579 0.002 21
United Kingdom 2,625 2352 0.006 57
Top States for DUFFIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 285 10018 0.001 8
Illinois 224 6339 0.002 18
Utah 210 1578 0.009 94
Texas 167 11146 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 155 10543 0.001 13
Top States for DUFFIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 210 1578 0.009 94
Idaho 117 1689 0.009 90
Montana 28 5494 0.003 31
Delaware 22 6764 0.003 28
Alaska 13 8584 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of DUFFIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 307 12.1
Mixed Race 29 1.14
White (Hispanic) 22 0.87
White (Caucasian) 2,170 85.5
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 DUFFIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DUFFIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DUFFIN.

Similar names to DUFFIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUFFIN.

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 DUFFIN

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