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The DUFFY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 37,962 827 0.014 141
United States (1880 census) 13,012 452 0.026 260
Change since 1880 +24950 -375 -0.012 -119
Other Countries
Australia 3,278 462 0.02 201
United Kingdom 18,852 293 0.041 410
Top States for DUFFY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 3,878 379 0.020 204
Pennsylvania 3,235 321 0.026 263
California 2,900 1082 0.009 86
Massachusetts 2,668 249 0.042 420
New Jersey 2,644 247 0.031 314
Top States for DUFFY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,668 249 0.042 420
Rhode Island 410 237 0.039 391
New Hampshire 473 336 0.038 383
Vermont 228 356 0.037 374
Delaware 277 417 0.035 353

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

Classification and Origin of DUFFY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 569 1.5
Mixed Race 440 1.16
Asian/Pacific 235 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 178 0.47
White (Caucasian) 34,974 92.13
Black/African American 1,568 4.13

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

Meaning of DUFFY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DUFFY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUFFY.

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 DUFFY

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